Jessie Keane - Lawless

Big love and hugs to everyone on the Pan Macmillan team, particularly my fabulous editor Wayne Brookes, PR supergirl Katie James and Creative Director Geoff Duffield. Thanks too to my agent Jane Gregory.

For information on the Naples Camorra, I am grateful to Tom Behan for his excellent See Naples and Die – The Camorra and Organised Crime.

The release of Roy Orbison’s album I’m Still In Love With You has been listed as 1974, 1975 and 1976, so I’ve employed a little artistic licence and taken it as 1974.

For information about the London underworld, thanks to all my usual sources. You know who you are.

Jessie Keane was born rich. Then the family business went bust and she was left poor and struggling in dead-end jobs, so she knows both ends of the spectrum and tells it straight. Her fascination with London and the underworld led her to write the No.1 Heatseeker Dirty Game , followed by bestsellers Black Widow , Scarlet Women , Jail Bird , The Make , Playing Dead , Nameless and Ruthless . She now lives in Hampshire. You can reach Jessie on her website www.jessiekeane.com.