Phil Benedict and Judy Segal and several of their friends introduced me to Geneva. (That’s Phil and Judy with the groceries in the elevator.) Tenley Le Sann took me to the restaurant that serves shrimp in white chocolate curry sauce.

Several members of the financial world in New York and Geneva explained to me how things work and are not responsible for the liberties I took with the facts.

Steve Smith checked me on diving and Kip Curren on sailing.

Ahmadu Garba provided help on Nigerian Pidgin and other things Nigerian.

Finally, special thanks to Olly Owen of the University of Oxford, who provided introductions to Emma Nnadozie, crime editor of the Vanguard newspaper, as well as Emmanuel Ojukwu and several other members, past and present, of the Nigeria Police Force, who generously met with me in Lagos. It was one of the latter who told me, as we sat in a police officers’ mess, “I am Catholic, and Episcopal, and Jewish. I was created by God and deposited in Nigeria for a purpose.”