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For their exceptional editorial suggestions, I am deeply thankful to Liza Nelligan, Michele Tempesta, Ken Salikoff, and Nina Bjornsson. Also to my admired friend and mentor, Jack Devine, a thirty-two-year veteran of the CIA, for his encouragement and guidance. And to my parents, sister, and all the friends who commented on draft after draft, particularly Christian D’Andrea and Priya Parmar. Thanks also to Sarah McGrath, whose thoughtful advice was so helpful at every step along the way.
For all their hard work on my behalf, I very much appreciate Linda Michaels and Teresa Cavanaugh of Linda Michaels Limited; Lynn Goldberg and Brooke Fitzsimmons of Goldberg McDuffie Communications; Matthew Snyder of Creative Artists Agency; and Linda Chester, Gary Jaffe, and Kelly Smith.
My heartfelt gratitude to the History of Science and English Departments at Harvard University. Especially to the brilliant Stephen Greenblatt, author of my favorite Marlowe essay of all time, for sharing his theory about Marlowe’sHero and Leander and inspiring the end of this novel. Thanks also to John Parker for so generously answering my questions and sharing some of his seemingly infinite wisdom, as well as Anne Harrington, James Engell, Katharine Park, John Guillory, and Steven Ozment for their kindness and intellectual guidance. For Kate’s discussion of Copernicus, Bruno, and Galileo, I am very much indebted to the engrossing lectures of Steven Harris, historian of science extraordinaire. As with everyone I have mentioned above, any mistakes are mine.
Finally, I would like to sing the praises of Charles Nicholl’s captivating and exhaustively researched nonfiction book,The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe, which was an invaluable help as I developedThe Intelligencer, as was Richard Wilson’s intriguing essay about Marlowe and the Muscovy Company: “Visible Bullets:Tamburlaine the Great and Ivan the Terrible.”