John D. Sahr of the University of Washington was kind enough to advise me casually on matters relating to supercooled water and submarines. I promptly ignored the realities in the name of good storymaking. Thanks are due to John anyway, and to his legal advisor, Grape the Labrador Retriever.
Ginger & White provided tea, and a place to sit. Sometimes that’s all you need.
I grew up in a house of stories, and some of those stories were tales of crooks and criminality. Some of them were of derring-do. All of them were amazing. To everyone who sat at our table and took the time to spin a tale for a small, serious child: thank you.
My daughter, Clemency, was born during the edit, weighing approximately the same as the manuscript and considerably more demanding. Her tiny footprints are all over my life, and Angelmaker—in the case of pages 92, 307, and 513, quite literally. Thank you, little bear.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nick Harkaway was born in Cornwall in 1972. He is the author of one previous novel,
The Gone-Away World. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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