Many Rivers to Cross

Acknowledgements

As usual, I have many people to thank for helping me get this book ready for publication and beyond, starting with my wife Sheila Halladay, who read the first draft and sent me back to the manuscript with many helpful suggestions. At Hodder & Stoughton, I would like to thank my editor Carolyn Mays and her assistant Madeleine Woodfield, along with the rest of the gang: Jamie Hodder-Williams, Lucy Hale, Kerry Hood, Steven Cooper and Sharona Selby. At McClelland and Stewart in Canada, thanks to Kelly Joseph, Jared Bland, Claire Pokorchak and Martha Leonard, and at William Morrow in the U.S.A., Emily Krump and Julia Elliott.

Also thanks to my agents Dominick Abel, David Grossman and Rosie and Jessica Buckman. I would also like to thank the overseas editors and translators who have stuck with me over the years. There are many others who contribute, including cover artists, book designers, proof-readers, sales reps, booksellers and librarians, and I would like to thank all those people. Thanks, too, to my readers, without whom all my efforts would be pointless.