Thanks, of course, go to all the good folks at Orca Book Publishers—editor Sarah Harvey, for her own bravery in dealing with me and my six other not-sosecret agents, to the intrepid boss Andrew Wooldridge and to co-conspirators Dayle Sutherland and Leslie Bootle. Thanks must also go to a chap named Ian Fleming and his great creation, James Bond, as well as to John Le Carré and what I learned from his creation, George Smiley, as he sneaked his way through The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. And not to be forgotten are Norah McClintock and those scoundrels Eric Walters, Sigmund Brouwer, Richard Scrimger, Ted Staunton and John Wilson, who make up the gang of Seven. It has been a pleasure to work with them both on paper and stage. Eric’s Bermuda-based novel Camp X: Trouble in Paradise was helpful too, as were my explorations of the work and lives of Graham Greene, William Stephenson, William Fairbairn and Roald Dahl.