Hideout by Jack Heath (iphone ebook reader txt) 📕

your names would be on the cover. (But there isn’t.) Thanks to everyone else who volunteered to read the manuscript—don’t worry, I’ll be back to collect that favour on some future book.

Sincere thanks to everyone at Wardini Books, whose dedication to spreading the word about Hangman made me a minor celebrity in Havelock North, New Zealand.

Thanks to Jackie French for the quote about anger on the first page. She was quick to point out that she was paraphrasing someone else who had read Hitler’s Daughter. There’s no cannibalism in that, but you should read it anyway.

Speaking of good books, thanks to the following journalists: Robert Evans (It Could Happen Here*), Eileen Ormsby (The Darkest Web), John Safran (Depends What You Mean By Extremist) and Jon Ronson (So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed). Their work was valuable while writing Hideout. Views expressed are Blake’s, not theirs (or mine).

Thanks to Lynne Allister, who donated $500 to #AuthorsForFireys and got a character named after her. I’m sorry your namesake was treated so poorly, but you did read the other books in the series, so you knew what you signed up for.

A lot happened during the development of Hideout. I moved house, twice. I became a father for the second time. There was the bushfire, and then the pandemic. Thank you to my family—Venetia, Redvers, Ash, Mum and Dad—for keeping me sane during a hard time … well, sane enough to write Hideout, anyway.

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* Not technically a book, but still good.