FELAHEEN Arabesk Book 03 Jon Courtenay Grimwood

For Jamie CG, Sam B and for my father, who has lived many of the things I only write about.

I owe you all, as ever . . .

"Since the prince needs to play the animal he chooses among the beasts the fox and the lion, because the lion cannot protect itself from snares and the fox cannot protect itself from wolves. Therefore the prince must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten the wolves."

–Machiavelli

"If a lion could speak, we could not understand him . . ."

–Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Unlike foxes."

–Tiri