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- ONE
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- NINE
- TEN
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- SIXTEEN
- SEVENTEEN
- EIGHTEEN
- NINETEEN
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- THIRTY
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- FIFTY
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- SIXTY
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- SIXTY-TWO
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- SIXTY-FIVE
- SIXTY-SIX
- SIXTY-SEVEN
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- SIXTY-NINE
- SEVENTY
- SEVENTY-ONE
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- SEVENTY-SEVEN
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- SEVENTY-NINE
- Acknowledgements
- OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK
Next I need to acknowledge my amazing team at Elliott and Thompson. Where would I be without you? I shudder to think! Jennie Condell, Pippa Crane, Angela McMahon, Anthony Keates, Rob Cox and Marianne Thorndahl. All of you have played your different parts in my career so far, in this book, and in my life. You have become a second family and any success we have with Marked For Death is as much yours as it is mine. This is the book it is because of you all. I hope it lives up to your amazing efforts.
Missing from my Elliott and Thompson roll-call is Lorne Forsyth. The boss. The man to whom I owe the greatest thanks. Lorne took an enormous risk on an untested criminal lawyer with aspirations to write, and he has backed that risk to the hilt. Lorne, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; my dad aside, I owe more to you than I owe to any other man. Thank you.
To Neil Speight, my friend. It was with Neil’s help that I developed any writing style I may have; he knocked off some of the rough edges and those that remain are not for want of him trying. No one has had a greater impact on what I do and a mere ‘thank you’ will never be enough. Neil is also more responsible than anyone else for Marked For Death. It was Neil who advised me to revisit Michael Devlin when all I wanted to do was to follow Joe Dempsey to New York (we’ll do that Book Three, for those who wanted to go with me . . .) and it was Neil who, when first reading this book, gave me the confidence that it at least matched Killer Intent. Neil, you know how much I owe you and what you mean to me and to my family. Thank you from us all.
To Daniel Gedeon, David Headley, Pavla Safratova and all the team at Goldsboro, for your support and now for your tireless efforts in the launch of the book. It is an absolute privilege for a writer at this stage of his career to find a place at your amazing store. I hope we can make all the hard work worthwhile!
To my brother Derek, who – like Mum – lived and breathed the development of Marked For Death, and who provided me with endless encouragement as the story grew into the book you now hold. He might not look much like a cheerleader, but he has been a great one!
To my dad for his wordless encouragement and silent support. Not a demonstrative man by any means, I am still left in no doubt that my dad will do anything I need to make the most of my new career. I could not ask for a stronger foundation upon which my life and the life of my family is built.
And to my sister, Kate, who came to the party a little late but who – once she had read both books – became my most enthusiastic and vocal supporter. And who I am convinced now works for my publishers, as literally no one pesters me quite as often to get Book Three finished! Almost there, Kate.