The Furies

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I have been helped by a good many people in the preparation of this book and I'm grateful to them all. My particular thanks go to Jay Tate, formerly of the British Army, for information about UK military matters; to a UK intelligence services professional — who prefers to remain anonymous — on matters pertaining to the UK intelligence services (thank you, X!); to Holger Kessler for assistance with German; and to Mike Bartle for providing me with information about aspects of life in the extreme north of Russia. I am also indebted to Jim Harvey and my wife Nancy for their critiques of the manuscript in an earlier version.