One Good Turn

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I owe a debt of gratitude to Martin Auld, Malcolm R. Dixon (deputy chief constable, Lothian and Borders Police), Russell Equi, Major Michael Keech, Sheriff Andrew Lothian, Dr. Doug Lyle, and Dr. Anthony Toft for telling me things they knew and I didn’t. Apologies if I have misunderstood that information or, occasionally, willfully misused or distorted it.

Thank you to David Robinson and Donald Ross at the Scots-man, to Reagan Arthur, Kim Witherspoon, and Peter Straus, and to Little, Brown and Transworld.

Thank you also to David Lindgren for trying, and usually failing, to explain corporate law to me and, more important, for being a lawyer who lunches.

Thanks also to Alan Stalker and Stephen Cotton for coming to the rescue in hard times.

Last but not least, thank you to the writer Ray Allan for graciously allowing me to steal a story from his life.