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To Julie Slavinsky at Warwick’s (and to Warwick’s) for keeping me in great books while I drafted this novel in La Jolla. And to Angela Sterling for the beautiful space in which to work.

To the wonderful Shakespeare productions and innovators from which I drew inspiration: Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More in New York; Rupert Gold’s 2010 film production of Macbeth; Alan Cumming’s brilliant audio performance of his one-man Macbeth, and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of All’s Well That Ends Well directed by John Dove.

To the pubs that helped me conjure the demonic Canny Man: Canny Man’s and Bennets Bar in Edinburgh, Scotland; Rockafellas in Salem, Massachusetts; and the Irish Snug in Denver, Colorado.

To everyone at the Clegg Agency—Simon Toop, David Kambhu, and Marion Duvert—and to Brooke Ehrlich at Anonymous Content for their hard work and commitment to my books.

Endless gratitude as always to my infinitely wise agent, Bill Clegg, for being the absolute best reader and champion I could hope for.

And last but never least, thanks most of all to Ken Calhoun, to whom this book is dedicated, and without whom there would be no book.