Salvation Row

AUTHOR’S NOTE

Thanks for reading Salvation Row. I hope you enjoyed it. I’m very fond of New Orleans, ever since I visited it as a fresh faced 21 year old (an awfully long time ago). I remember Bourbon Street, an amazing visit to Preservation Hall for some very funky jazz, and looking out over the Mississippi just like Milton. Hurricane Katrina and the consequences of the storm couldn’t really have been any more traumatic for a city that was already struggling, and I hope I have done justice to New Orleanians like Izzy Bartholomew who have worked so hard to repair the damage. Her fictional charity, Build It Up, is unashamedly based on the groundbreaking work done by the Make It Right Foundation, set up by Brad Pitt in the aftermath of the storm to repair the damage to the Lower Ninth. I will be making a donation to the charity, so some of the money you spent in buying this book will be going to a very good, and very deserving cause.

John Milton will be back in 2015. He has unfinished business with Avi Bachman…

Best wishes

Mark Dawson

Wiltshire, UK

December 2014