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FOREWORD

Deadline Istanbul is a blend of reality and of dream-like memories, of fact and fiction, of people I may have met with those purely made-up. My love affair with Turkey goes far, far back, to Peace Corps days in the 1960’s and has been renewed with more years of living there and innumerable visits to virtually every corner of that wondrous land.

In all those years of living in and visiting Turkey, I never came across the dead bodies and mysterious crimes my protagonist Elizabeth Darcy can’t seem to avoid. Even as a correspondent for Voice of America, I didn’t encounter much murder—first-hand, at least.

In this book, I’ve taken liberties with Turkey and its people, as well as with expatriates who live or work there. I hope I have managed to present them both with the richness they deserve. There are good people, bad people, kind and cruel people. In short, exotic surroundings do not change human nature.