Acknowledgments

With thanks to:

My wife-reader-manager-promoter-believer, Eilis O’Herlihy

My folks, Tina and Matt Miller

My editor, Ben George, incomparably wise, perspicacious gentleman

My agent, Esmond Harmsworth, elemental in generosity and support, and with gratitude to Ann Collette for sending me to him

Phil Condon, Bryce Andrews, Colleen Chartier, Garon Taylor-Tyree, Kate MacLean, Nick Zigelbaum, Mariah Raymond, Jackson Evans, and Ned Maturin O’Herlihy, for reading pages and lighting fires

Patrick O’Brian, Beryl Bainbridge and Frans Bengtsson, for the inspiration

Lalo, old shadow, who lives on in this book