Acknowledgements
A number of people kindly helped me with my research for Zambezi.
My thanks go to Danny Toplis from the North Fort Artillery Museum in the Sydney suburb of Manly, for access to information about surface-to-air missiles; to Susan Fuchs-Nebel, who helped fill in the gaps in my memories of Zanzibar; to Julia Salnicki for providing information on animal tranquillisers; and to fellow Pan Macmillan author, and pilot, David A Rollins, for his help with the aircraft scenes.
I am also indebted to American author and former Gulf War Apache helicopter pilot Michael T Gregory; and to Ed Delong and Susan Bray Delong, late of the United States, who all read early drafts of the manuscript and straightened out some of my half-arsed Americanisms. Isabel ‘Scotty’ Wrench was also kind eno
