Our Game

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACADEMICS GET A rough time in this book, but that's Larry's fault. My own debt to then is considerable: to Dr. George Hewitt of the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Honorary Consul of Abkhazia; to Mary Bennigsen Broxup, editor of Central Asian Survey; to Robert Chenciner of St. Anthony's College, Oxford; and to Federico Varese of Naffield College, Oxford. Major Colin Gillespie and his wife, Sue, of Wotton Vineyard in Somerset make much better wine than Tim Cranmer ever did; John Goldsmith guided me through the corridors of Winchester College; Edward Nowell, master jeweller and antique dealer of Wells, opened his Aladdin's cave to me. All through the writing of this book I was lucky in my choice of friends and strangers alike.

John le Carre

Cornwall, December 1994