Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Doctor Moreau

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As always, thanks to everyone at Titan and to all those who have supported these new tales of Baker Street, reviewers, publicists and above all readers. It’s an address we never tire of visiting.

I am supported in everything I do by Debra, the woman who reads it first. Time and again she is forced to read books on subjects she has no interest in. If that interest is piqued by the time she gets halfway in then I know I have done my job. I love her very much indeed and couldn’t write a word without her.

Mother gets the second taste, once a few edits have crept in. If nothing else this makes her think I’m slightly cleverer than I actually am. Which is never a bad position to be in. Again, her support is quite simply invaluable.

Finally, we must thank the dreamers of another age, Doyle, Wells, Verne, Burroughs … writers who looked at the world through a strange lens indeed, cusping a century with some of the bravest and most thrilling stories ever written, stories that stand proud over a hundred years later and mark them as the giants they were.

I am not worthy, but it is to be hoped that the simple act of trying to be continues to bring me closer.