ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Nikki Garcia and Alvina Ling at Little, Brown for their patience and support; and to Suzanne Gluck at WME every bit as much.

Thanks also to Chantal Nong and Rachel Benveniste.

And my wife and children. To put it as a somewhat grammatically confused friend once did, “For whom it has all been for.”

Apologies where necessary to my alma mater, Trinity College Cambridge, and my soul mother, the Ashram Galactica.

A couple of books were especially inspiring in the writing: The Evolution of Cooperation by Richard Axelrod; Noble Savages by Napoleon Chagnon.