Knife Edge

DEDICATION

Dedicated to Gary Howell, Andrew Bird, Keith Solder, Diana Gimber (now Diana Solder), Cliff Shaeffer and Arlene Baxter (now Arlene Harvey), friends in my teenage years and, thanks to Facebook, still friends now. Where did those years go?

My thanks go to Polly Nolan, for yet another sensitive but thorough editing job; to Pedro Albano, for the (in his case unwitting) use of his wonderful name, and to Andrew F. Gulli of the Strand Magazine, for turning down one of the central ideas of the book as a short story and thus allowing me to use it in this novel, but then commissioning me to write something else instead.