The Maya Codex (56 page)
In writing this novel, many others outside Penguin have also provided advice, encouragement and occasional solace. To Robyn, who has seen me when the going has been at its roughest, and to Antoinette and friends, my heartfelt thanks. My agent, Clare Forster (Curtis Brown), has given unstintingly of her time, reading the manuscript and, as always, providing insightful advice; I am very lucky to have her on my team. To Kate, Nic and Patrick at the Stockmarket Café in Leura, and patrons like Stephen Measday, Guy and Jayne, Rod and Bronwyn, and the other locals who frequent the long wooden table to solve the problems of the world. To Mary Rodwell, the director and founder of ACERN, the Australian Close Encounter Resource Network, for her counsel on understanding the phenomenon of past lives. To Tom, Wendy, Jodie, Tom, Kathie, Imogen, Tegan, Judy and the rest of the staff at Megalong Books. To Caroline Ladewig, who read some of the early drafts, and provided the sort of wonderful feedback you’d expect from one who lectures in English, a very big thank you. I’ m also indebted to other scholars, such as Dr José Argüelles, Dr Carl Johan Calleman, Professor Michael D. Coe, Maurice Cotterell, Barbara Hand Clow, Adrian Gilbert, John Major Jenkins, Geoff Stray, and many others. To include them all would be to footnote a novel.
Historians may note my adjustment of some of the chronology and timing of real events, particularly in Nazi Germany. That has been done to suit the plotlines, and again, any errors are mine alone.
Finally, to my two boys, David and Mark (to whom whose partner and spouse this novel is dedicated), the former a senior fireman, the latter a detective, who continue to scratch their heads as to what their father might be up to.
MICHAEL JOSEPH
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