Jerry Hyde - Empathy for the Devil

Mai Hua, thank you for your boundless love, for tolerating my ego and the great many mantrums that went into the making of this book and for dragging your arse around cold, wet, muddy battlefields in the depths of winter, youd have frozen to death were it not for the huge warmth of your soul.

Next time I say, dont take ayahuasca

Dont take ayahuasca.

So too Jonny Phillips, Steve Howse and Robin Evans.

Truly remarkable men the strength and inspiration of your company inspired me to go on when my feet were cold and blistered and somehow, through that encounter, I found the heart of this book.

Thank you for your comradeship.

Janan Kubba, Noor Kubba Hyde and Tara Kubba Hyde for your love and support, for always believing in me and inspiring the shit out of me with your collective and individual beauty and wisdom.

Stephen Hopgood, thank you for your unfailing friendship, your guts (which Ive witnessed both inside and out), for your feedback and for trawling through various drafts of the manuscript, for helping me shape it and being a part of it.

Melissa Unger for fucking this book right up by saying in response to some early pages this could be your masterpiece

No pressure.

Thank you for your chaos management, your friendship and constant, bottomless support.

Sebastian Junger for your generosity of spirit, wisdom, brilliance and friendship.

Tim Page, thank you for your time, friendship, for the rambling, always fascinating conversations and for being one of the few people who actually deserves the title living legend.

Will Blanchard, my oldest friend, co-conspirator and true inspiration, thank you for reading the manuscript in record time, for your uniqueness of character that showed me the way before I even knew there was a way. Love you, man.

Zoe Ereni for your encouragement, trust, humour, fighting spirit and enthusiasm cant wait to see what you publish.

Ainhoa Pa for your distracting beauty in all that you do.

Brendan OByrne, Im sorry your words got edited out, thank you for your time, warmth, trust and courage.

Stephen Mayes for your generous support from the very beginning, and Idil Ibrahim for graciously opening so many doors for me.

Charlie Taylor for your love and warmth that spans many decades and for suggesting that maybe I might possibly write this one for the reader?

Christine Rockwell whom Ive never met but who so graciously took time to read the manuscript twice and give me such fantastic notes which ultimately helped shape the book.

Pete and Alice, my maternal grandparents, for showing me how to stick it to the man.

Dedicated to the memory of Steve Annett, 1950-2019, our very own and beloved Prometheus who lived life to the full and refused to have it any other way.

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