Wow, thanks! I'm so glad it all came across so well and you liked the characters and the story so much. I wanted it to be realistic, to show a different face of South Africa and South Africans than the often slightly stereotypical one and I kind of knew early on it had to end that way.

I was living in South Africa when the Info scandal (or Muldergate as they called it!) was uncovered by the Rand Daily Mail journalists, but after thirty odd years memory gets a bit hazy*g* I was lucky enough to get hold of the book two of the journalists wrote about their investigations and that gave me a lot of material to work with, and I did quite a bit of reasearch into stuff that was revealed much later. It was very interesting and I enjoyed writing it!