The Crowded Grave

invented my archaeologists and the discovery of such a family. The details in the text of the dirty war waged by some elements of the Spanish state against the Basque ETA terrorists are also historically correct. This book was completed before the latest ETA cease-fire brought the promise of a peaceful resolution of this conflict that has been under way for some forty years and more. Long may the cease-fire endure.
    As always, I am grateful to my friends in the various arms of the French police, to the people of the Périgord, and to the various tennis and rugby and hunting clubs who have brought much pleasure and bonhomie and magnificent food and drink to my life. The St. Exupéry family and their staff at the great vineyard of Château de Tiregand have my special gratitude for the splendid wines they make and for their welcome to me and thirsty crew of international journalists exploring Bruno country. Special thanks, as always, to Jane and Caroline Wood, who are probably getting tired of my saying they whip these books into shape when their touch is far more delicate; along with my U.S. editor, Jonathan Segal, they sculpt them into shape.
    Many friends and meals and restuarants inspire the cooking in the Bruno books, but each recipe must pass the expert eye of my wife, Julia Watson. Her expertise on food can be verified on her captivating blog eatwashington.com. I am also very grateful indeed for our daughter, Kate, who writes on motor sports for girlracer.com. She has taken over and invigorated and transformed the brunochiefofpolice.com Web site, which is becoming an ever more useful resource for the attractions, the food, the wine, and the history of the Périgord, and for the life and activities of Bruno and his friends. I recommend it to all Bruno fans.

ALSO BY MARTIN WALKER
    F ICTION
Bruno, Chief of Police

The Dark Vineyard

Black Diamond

The Caves of Périgord
    N ONFICTION
The Iraq War

Europe in the Twenty-first Century
(coauthor)
America Reborn

The President They Deserve

The Cold War: A History

Martin Walker’s Russia

The Waking Giant:

Gorbachev and Perestroika

Powers of the Press

The National Front

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Martin Walker is senior director of the Global Business Policy Council, a think tank on international economics founded by the A. T. Kearney management consultancy. He is also a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and editor in chief emeritus of United Press International, for whom he writes the weekly syndicated column on international affairs “Walker’s World.” Mr. Walker spent twenty-five years as a prizewinning journalist with
The Guardian
. He has also written for
The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement
and other national and foreign publications. He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and the Périgord region of France. Readers can learn more about Bruno and his friends, his cooking and his region on brunochiefofpolice.com.