Acknowledgments

 

To Keith Kahla, Hannah Braaten, Steve K., Sally Richardson, Bethany Reis, Rafal Gibek, Paul Hochman, Dori Weintraub, Justin Velella, and everybody at St. Martin’s Press in New York (and beyond) for their patience, professionalism, and support.

To my agents, Will Francis and Luke Janklow, and to everyone at Janklow & Nesbit, on both sides of the Atlantic: Kirsty Gordon, Rebecca Folland, Jessie Botterill, Claire Dippel, Dmitri Chitov, and Stefanie Lieberman.

My thanks to Marika and Malachi Smythos for guidance on Chios. To Owen Matthews, for his generosity and kindness, not least in introducing me to the wonderful Ebru Taskin in Ankara. Owen has written two great books—Stalin’s Children and Glorious Misadventures—both of which I strongly recommend. Jonny Dymond, Cansu Çamlibel, Nick Lockley, Banu Buyurgan, Alex Varlick at Istanbul’s Georges Hotel, Omar, GG, and Frank R. were all great sources of information in Turkey. Thanks to A. D. Miller and Simon Sebag Montefiore for Odessa tips. Narges Bajoghli and Christopher de Bellaigue, author of Patriot of Persia and In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, gave me very useful insights into life in Tehran.

I am also grateful to: Harry de Quetteville, Mr. and Mrs. Adam le Bor, Boglárka Várkonyi, Ben Macintyre, Ian Cumming, Mark Pilkington, Siobhan Vernon, Mark Meynell, Rowland White, Robin Durie, Alice Kahrmann, Rory Paget, Catherine Heaney, Bard Wilkinson, Anna Bilton, Hasmukh and Minesh Kakad, Boris Starling, Pat Ford, Saveria Callagy, Meredith Hindley, Kate Mallinson, Ros O’Shaughnessy, my mother, Caroline Pilkington, and all the staff at The Week in London.

I owe unrepayable debts to Elizabeth Best and Sarah Gabriel (www.sarahgabriel.eu). I would not have started A Colder War without one, nor finished it without the other. Thank you.

C.C., London, 2013