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Chapters (55)
  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Also by Nicholas Shakespeare
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Prologue
  7. PART ONE
  8. Chapter One
  9. Chapter Two
  10. Chapter Three
  11. Chapter Four
  12. Chapter Five
  13. Chapter Six
  14. Chapter Seven
  15. Chapter Eight
  16. Chapter Nine
  17. Chapter Ten
  18. Chapter Eleven
  19. Chapter Twelve
  20. Chapter Thirteen
  21. Chapter Fourteen
  22. Chapter Fifteen
  23. Chapter Sixteen
  24. Chapter Seventeen
  25. Chapter Eighteen
  26. Chapter Nineteen
  27. Chapter Twenty
  28. PART TWO
  29. Chapter Twenty-one
  30. Chapter Twenty-two
  31. Chapter Twenty-three
  32. Chapter Twenty-four
  33. Chapter Twenty-five
  34. Chapter Twenty-six
  35. Chapter Twenty-seven
  36. Chapter Twenty-eight
  37. Chapter Twenty-nine
  38. Chapter Thirty
  39. PART THREE
  40. Chapter Thirty-one
  41. Chapter Thirty-two
  42. Chapter Thirty-three
  43. Chapter Thirty-four
  44. Chapter Thirty-five
  45. Chapter Thirty-six
  46. PART FOUR
  47. Chapter Thirty-seven
  48. Chapter Thirty-eight
  49. Chapter Thirty-nine
  50. Chapter Forty
  51. Chapter Forty-one
  52. Chapter Forty-two
  53. Chapter Forty-three
  54. Chapter Forty-four
  55. Acknowledgements

I am indebted to the following for their help: Charles Alexander, Clare Alexander, Jonathan Beswick, Charlie Bowman, Justin and Jane Byam-Shaw, Mary Chamberlain, Jonathan Colchester, Steven Cowley, John Davies, Matthew Dodd, Mark Evans, Miguel Farias, Vernon Flynn, Liz Foley, Mike Forrest, Peter and Jessica Frankopan, Sheru George, Barry Green, John Hatt, Gillian and Jo-Ann Johnson, Peter and Juliet Johnson, Ian Kellas, Craig Kendall, Matthew Kidd, David Kingham, Piers Litherland, Nigel McGilchrist, Kate McIlwain, Brian Menell, Alain and Max Michaelis, Philip Norman, Jean and Marie de Portales, Henry Porter, Harry F. Robey, Nick Robinson, Ben and Max Shakespeare, Christopher and Francesca Shakespeare, Kasia Starega, Yiannis Takitos; the staff of the Taylorian Library.

I would like to pay tribute to A Death in Brazil, by Peter Robb (Bloomsbury, 2004); Brighter than a Thousand Suns, by Robert Jungk (Harcourt, 1970); The Master and His Emissary, by Iain McGilchrist (Yale, 2009); The Old Man and the Sand Eel, by Will Millard (Viking, 2018); Losing an Enemy, by Trita Parsi (Yale, 2017); Kabloona, by Gontran De Poncins (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941); the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.

The lines ‘Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble/Trouble been dogging my soul since the day I was born’ are taken from the album ‘Trouble’, by Ray LaMontagne, 2004.

The lines from ‘Chomei at Toyama’ are from Basil Bunting’s Complete Poems ed. Richard Caddell © Bloodaxe Books 2000. Reproduced by kind permission of Bloodaxe Books.

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