Acknowledgements

Creating Death in Helmand has been a great pleasure for both of us, not least for the opportunity it’s given us to work with everyone else who’s been involved in bringing the book to the page – we’re exceedingly grateful for all the help and input we’ve received.

First, we would like to thank our brilliant agent, Jenny Brown of Jenny Brown Associates, for always steering us in the right direction, and also JBA rights director Andrea Joyce for taking our stories further afield.

Thanks go to everyone at Canelo, though first and foremost to our editor, Craig Lye, for his excellent guidance and thoughtful editing throughout. We are further indebted to Tom Sanderson for his superb cover design, to Kate Berens for stellar copy-editing and to the eagle-eyed Vicki Vrint for proofreading. Gratitude to Micaela Cavaletto for production, and to Thanhmai Bui-Van, Nicola Piggott, Elinor Fewster, Claudine Sagoe and Francesca Riccardi for Sales, Marketing and Publicity.

Thanks to our beta reader Jay Vansittart, who served on Herrick 11 and 14.