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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors offer grateful acknowledgment to the following people, who have
greatly enriched the background authenticity of this novel by their generous
contributions of time and information:
The Reverend W.C.H. Seal, for background on Phurbas and Tibetan black magic, as
well as orthodox Tibetan Buddhism, and for checking the final manuscript for
accuracy; any errors that have crept in are ours, not his;
Mr. Thorn McCarthy, administrator for the Holy Island Project, Samye Ling Tibetan
Centre in Scotland, for his warm welcome and reams of information at Samye Ling,
and for helping arrange our visit to Holy Island;
Mr. Harry Lloyd, Northern Fisheries Board, Ballyshannon, who allowed us to inspect
and photograph inflatable patrol craft and survival gear used by Fisheries officers;
also, Mr. Ronan Flynn, Central Fisheries Board, and Mr. Bryan Murphy, of
OceanTech, Dun Laoghaire, for more specific information on the Avon inflatable
boats used by the Irish Department of the Marine;
P.C. Stephen Stewart (Alexandria), Detective Sergeant Alasdair Barnett
(Campbeltown), and P.C. David White, Strathclyde Police, for guidance on police
procedure;
Mrs. Elaine Ennis, Scottish Department of Social Work, for insights on rehabilitation
procedures for spinal injury patients;
Chief Engineer Gordon W. Whitehead, for invaluable technical expertise regarding
submarine operation;
Mr. Simon Martin, for sharing his practical knowledge of marine salvage work;
Dr. Richard Oram, our resident authority on Scottish history, who was able to paint
us a graphic picture of seventeenth-century Hawick;
Mr. Ken Fraser of the St. Andrews University Library, for being ever ready to find all
manner of obscure books on demand.

prologue
"THE weather in the far north of Ireland will continue unsettled for at least the next
twenty-four hours," came the crackly voice of the radio weatherman. "… occasional


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outbreaks of rain and northeasterly winds gusting up to forty knots…"
The rest of the marine forecast dissolved in a hiss of static that was lost in the roar
of twin Yamaha outboards and the slap of water against black and orange sponsons
as the big inflatable boat punched through the waves off the north coast of
Donegal. Irish Fisheries Officer Mick Scanlan grimaced as he scanned ahead with a