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Chapters (54)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. PART ONE
  6. ONE
  7. TWO
  8. THREE
  9. FOUR
  10. DEADLY SAS RAID IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER SCRUTINY
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. PART TWO
  28. TWENTY-ONE
  29. TWENTY-TWO
  30. TWENTY-THREE
  31. TWENTY-FOUR
  32. TWENTY-FIVE
  33. TWENTY-SIX
  34. TWENTY-SEVEN
  35. TWENTY-EIGHT
  36. TWENTY-NINE
  37. DANIEL MOORE: ‘A SINGLE BLOKE, HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, A BIT OF A DUNCE BUT WITH A GOOD HEART,’ BEST FRIEND SAYS.
  38. THIRTY
  39. THIRTY-ONE
  40. THIRTY-TWO
  41. THIRTY-THREE
  42. THIRTY-FOUR
  43. THIRTY-FIVE
  44. BREAKING: POLICE CONFIRM DANIEL MOORE ACTED ALONE
  45. THIRTY-SIX
  46. THIRTY-SEVEN
  47. THIRTY-EIGHT
  48. THIRTY-NINE
  49. SECOND ARREST MADE IN WESTAY HIDDEN CAMERAS CASE
  50. EPILOGUE
  51. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  52. Discover More
  53. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  54. Also by J. P. Pomare

The first thanks, as always, goes to my incredible literary agent Pippa Masson. I have no idea what I would be doing if you hadn’t always shown faith in me and my work but I’m certain I wouldn’t be up to book number four. Thank you also to the other agents helping to get my work out into the hands of publishers and creators in other territories, including Gordon Brown, Dan Lazar, Kate Cooper-Adams and Jerry Kalajian.

Thanks to my publisher Rebecca Saunders and my editor Emma Rafferty along with the rest of the team at Hachette who have all helped to whip this book into shape and get it out into the world. Thanks also to Mel Winder, Tania Mackenzie-Cooke and the Hachette Aotearoa team. Thanks to the many others who have had eyes on this story at various stages, including Deonie Fiford, Ali Lavau, Lyn Yeowart, Tiffany Plummer and my number-one-fan/mother-in-law, Jackie Tracy.

Robert Watkins, Brigid Mullane, Tessa Connelly and Lydia Tasker have each played significant roles in helping to establish my career for which I will always be grateful.

Thanks to Lily Cooper and the team at Hodder Books for finding me a readership in the UK. Thanks also to Helen O’Hare and everyone at Mulholland for getting my work out in the US.

This book took a lot of research and my odd method/writing habits saw me develop a mild gambling habit, get more fit than I would ever care to be again and led me to shave my head (again). I also spent time around the stunning Rotorua Lakes area and made a number of trips to New Zealand as research before COVID-19 stopped further travel plans. Right before the lockdowns and the chaos that was 2020, I completed a fellowship at the Michael King Writers Centre in Takapuna. I cannot overstate the importance of this unbroken writing time in such a historic house for the completion of this novel.

Along with researching the setting, I sought to understand the life of a paramedic. I spent countless hours on the phone with Kierin Oppatt, quizzing him on both the most pedestrian aspects of his job along with the most interesting. Kierin, in the extremely unlikely event you’ve made it this far into the book, thank you for everything.

I spoke with former members of the New Zealand SAS and Army Corp who served in Afghanistan to gain a greater understanding of life both before and after deployment in ‘the unit’ and how such an environment affects one’s psychological landscape. Many thanks to Barrie Rice and Carol Kitsen. Thanks to Nathan Blackwell who also helped with police procedural matters.