AcknowledgementsA MASSIVE THANK YOU to all who have encouraged and supported me in the writing of this book. An honourable mention must go to Steve Hall, my publisher and editor, who somehow found the time and energy to apply his considerable skills to everything that was needed to get me to publication, when I myself lacked the wherewithal. No easy task, I know. Thanks hugely, Steve.
I also have to thank those who brought the book along in its various metamorphoses from a pile of handwritten sheets to dot-matrix printout of a steam-driven Amstrad PCW8256 to final form on the hard drive of a gleaming PC. I must praise the friendship and flying fingers of John Wallace, who dedicated himself to transforming thousands of words into their present incarnation. Thanks so much, John.
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