This cover was helped inordinately by a total lack of editorial involvement. Added late to the list, shepherded under the radar of editor, agent and author, by art director extraordinaire John Gall, it is, in fact, one of the few covers I’ve ever made that looked the same printed as it did initially on my computer screen. Props to John. And to our production man Neil “spinesize” Barman who, luckily for me, speaks Hindi like a champ.