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  1. The Source
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Marie ~ London ~ 2006
  5. Carly ~ Warchester ~ 1996
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  35. Marie ~ London ~ 2006
  36. Carly ~ London ~ 2001
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  41. Marie ~ Just outside Warchester ~ 2006
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  44. Carly ~ Deptford ~ 2002
  45. Marie ~ London ~ 2006
  46. Marie ~ Deptford ~ 2004
  47. Marie ~ London ~ 2006
  48. Marie ~ London ~ 2005
  49. Marie ~ London ~ 2006
  50. Marie ~ London ~ Six months later
  51. Acknowledgements
  52. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  53. Copyright

To Tony Maddox, Mike McCarthy, Geoff Hill, and the incomparable Deborah Rayner. Thank you for lifting me up and making the ceiling disappear, again and again. Laurie Scott and Olivia Guy are pale reflections of the differences you have all made to so many. To Nic Robertson, Nick Paton Walsh and Richard Quest, without whom I could never have dreamt up Dominic Greene. Just remember you can always blame his less attractive characteristics on each other. And to the rest of Team CNN, the ultimate tribe – the friends that became family, the stories that became history, the memories that became legend. The world needs journalists like you.

To my first readers – Ben Blake, Jonny Sultoon, Michelle Jacobs, Noa Bladon, Tim Lister, Jamie Crichton and Geoff Hill (again) 278for all the invaluable feedback. Similarly to Louise Sutton, Jack Ford, Jo Spain and the team at Lime Pictures. You got behind the story like it was your own and enhanced it beyond measure.

To Ruth Field, the mentor to end all mentors. I will never know what I did to deserve the Grit Doctor herself on my side. Thank you for the warmest of friendships, the most deranged of laughs, the grittiest of gritty encouragement.

And to my cherished family: Mum, Dad, Ben, Oli, Liora, Guy and Trixie. I am nothing without your love, belief, encouragement, support, and forgiveness.

Lastly to the victims. I have visualised your pain, I have imagined your suffering. It still feels wrong that I have appropriated your experience when I should have tried to do something more material about it. But when the facts themselves are under attack, the medium of fiction is a powerful tool. I hope you can see it is all in pursuit of the truth. And I hope I have done it justice.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Sultoon is a journalist and writer whose work as an international news executive at CNN has taken her all over the world, from the seats of power in both Westminster and Washington to the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. She has extensive experience in conflict zones, winning three Peabody awards for her work on the war in Syria, an Emmy for her contribution to the coverage of Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015, and a number of Royal Television Society gongs. As passionate about fiction as nonfiction, she recently completed a Masters of Studies in Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge, adding to an undergraduate language degree in French and Spanish, and Masters of Philosophy in History, Film and Television. When not reading or writing she can usually be found somewhere outside, either running, swimming or throwing a ball for her three children and dog while she imagines what might happen if…

Follow Sarah on Twitter: @SultoonSarah.

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First published in the United Kingdom by Orenda Books, 2021
Copyright © Sarah Sultoon, 2021