City of Lost Dreams

Acknowledgments

Magnus Flyte would like to acknowledge the many people who have aided and abetted him during this project: Eva-Maria Berger for her generosity, advice, and good company in Vienna; Charlotte Sommer and Bruce Walker, for ongoing ground support of every kind in Prague; Renato Marena for wonderful hosting and the finest samosas in all of London; Nina Viswanathan for being the best virtual dinner guest ever; Matteo, Berta, and Sabine Tamanini for joining Magnus for a mad dash through Schloss Ambras; Kathleen McCleary for being the first reader; John and Jennifer Brancato for fueling Magnus with moral support and mortadella; Betty Luceigh for unveiling the wonders of nanotechnology; Claudia Cross and Sally Brady for knowing when to send in either the cavalry or the caviar and champagne; Carolyn Carlson, Ramona Demme, and all of Team Penguin for taking a leap of faith (twice); Lindsay Prevette and Laura Abbott for putting Magnus up in style; man-in-the-field Brian Wilson for buoying all things Magnus; Nick Sherman and Adam Dannheisser for guerrilla-style video-making; Patrick Tully for five musical notes on a winter evening; and a special thank-you to all those gorgeous, brilliant, sexy people working at bookstores across the land. You know who you are.