The Child (35 page)

Susanne Klein, Monika Neudeck, Patricia Kessler deserve my gratitude for jointly making waves in the press.

Dominik Huber. Although you’re a master of the virtual world, I’m glad I’ve got to know you in reality.

I should also like to thank the booksellers who sell my books and the publisher’s representatives who get them to where they belong. Standing in for a host of equally deserving individuals, the following merit my very special thanks: Iris Haas, Droemer’s sales manager; Heide Bogner; Roswitha Kurth; Andreas Thiele; Christiane Thöming; and Katrin Englberger. Oh yes, and – of course – Georg Regis. It’s easy to predict a favourable future for me as long as you continue to work so tirelessly on my behalf.

Who does that leave? Masses of people, for instance my father Freimut Fitzek, from whom I inherited more than just a love of literature; Simon Jäger; Dirk Stiller; Michael Treutler; Tom Hankel; Matthias Kopp; Andrea Kammann; Sabine Hoffmann; Daniel Biester; and Cordula Jungbluth. You all know why. If not, you owe me one.

I also welcome any visitors to
www.sebastianfitzek.de
. Either drop in there, or write me direct at
[email protected]
and tell me whether you liked the book. I promise to reply this side of the grave.

Sebastian Fitzek

Berlin, September 2007

PS.
Thank you too, of course, Simon Sachs. Wherever you may be …