Dragon Fire

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Although Dragon Fire is a novel, it draws extensively on factual material and was written after conducting dozens of interviews with experts involved in the scenario described.

I would like to thank those who helped, but cannot be named because they still have jobs in sensitive areas. I can, however, thank (in alphabetical order) Khaled Ahmed, Ravinatha Aryansinha, Mirza Aslam Beg, Andrew Brookes, Rupak Chattopadhyay, Mani Dixit, Roger Dunn, John Elliott, Gavin Greenwood, Bharat Karnad, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, James Lyons Jnr, Raja Menon, Abdul Nayyar, Tseten Norbu, Samdhomg Rimpoche, Kate Saunders, Sreenath Sreenivasan, K. Subrahmanyam, Terry Taylor, Ashley Tellis, Malini Thadani, Karan Thapar and Gregory L. Vistica; BBC colleagues Malcolm Downing, Adrian Van Klaveren, Richard Sambrook, and Fred Scott; Bharat-rakshak, the Tibet Information Network, the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis in Delhi, the Institute for Strategic Studies in Pakistan, the Rand Corporation and the Federation of American Scientists; researchers Sitara Achreja, Brigid Bowen, Victoria Connor, Chanel Khan and Chloe Lederman, who worked against deadlines and an ever-changing brief, and Dipanker Banerjee and Ashok Mehta, who made invaluable corrections and suggestions for the text. Sadly missed was Simon Holberton, my co-author from Dragon Strike. Any mistakes are, of course, my own, and for those who spot them, remember it is only fiction.