Skull and Bones

Acknowledgements

I am very grateful to those who have given much-valued help and advice in my efforts to write a decent novel. As always I thank my editors Julia Wisdom and Anne O'Brien, for their scholarly reviews, some splendid ideas, and their careful weeding out of my errors. Also I particularly thank my agent, Antony Topping, and my son, who together prevented this novel from turning into a historical documentary on Colonial America, which might have made a nice textbook, but nobody would have bought it for fun.

John Drake