Chasing the Devil

by Tim Butcher

  And through the loneliest part of the journey – the writing – I was kept going by the enthusiasm of Camilla Hornby at Curtis Brown, the skill of Poppy Hampson at Chatto & Windus and the vision of her former colleague, Alison Samuel, and the special support of Margaret Hussey, Richard Foreman, Tim and Jacqueline Parsonson, Ruth Fuller-Sessions, Sally Stephens, Stanley and Lisette Butcher and Patrick and Marilyn Flanagan.

  Jane, Kit and Tess were with me every step. Their love gave me reason both to go the extra mile and to relish coming home.

  Credits

  Main map by Paul Simmons

  Hand-drawn maps by Jane Flanagan

  Hand-drawn illustrations by Sally Stephens

  All photographs property of Tim Butcher unless mentioned below

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  Foreign Office memo, courtesy of The National Archives, Kew, London

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  Newspaper advert, from the Independent Observer

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  The Greenes in Liverpool photograph, courtesy of the Daily Mail

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  German newspaper cartoon, courtesy of Count Rupert Strachwitz

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  Yannis Behrakis self-portrait, courtesy of the photographer

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  Sierra Leone railway photograph, courtesy of Middleton Press, publisher of Sierra Leone Narrow Gauge

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  Barbara Greene with bearers photograph, courtesy of Count Rupert Strachwitz

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  Graham Greene walking photograph, courtesy of Count Rupert Strachwitz

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  Excerpt from ‘An Arundel Tomb’ from Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, reprinted courtesy of Faber and Faber Ltd

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  Liberian devil photograph, courtesy of Count Rupert Strachwitz

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  Graham Greene in sun-helmet photograph, courtesy of Count Rupert Strachwitz

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  Hand-drawn map, courtesy of Count Rupert Strachwitz

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