I would like to thank Daniel Gosling at the National Archives, and the staff at the Caird Library & Archives at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich; Alistair France and Anthony Gray; interpreters and transliterators Muhammad Wafa, Essam Edgard Samné, and former Naval Intelligence officer Hassan Eltaher; agents Jon Wood, Mike Bryan and Heather Adams, and my editor at Canelo, Craig Lye.
Jonathan Spencer, 2021