Double Vision

Author’s Note

My thanks go to Neil Darbyshire of the Daily Telegraph for enabling me to attend the opening of the Milosevic trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, and to Neil Tweedie, foreign correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, for helping to make my visit a pleasant experience.

I am grateful to Gillon Aitken and everybody at Gillon Aitken Associates for their continuing support, and to Simon Prosser and everybody at Hamish Hamilton for their enthusiastic publishing.

A special acknowledgement must go to Donna Poppy: the most tactful, conscientious and meticulous of editors.

No words can express what I owe to my husband.

Among the books I found thought-provoking and useful in the writing of this novel are Martin Bell’s In Harm’s Way, Julia Blackburn’s Old Man Goya, Fergal Keane’s Season of Blood, Don McCullin’s Unreasonable Behaviour, John Simpson’s Strange Places, Questionable People, Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others and Janis Tomlinson’s Goya.

The mistakes and shortcomings are, as always, mine.