Read a few of his novels last year and noticed this in the acknowledgements at the back of 'A Delicate Truth':
'My thanks to Danny, Jessica and Callum for enlivening my researches in Gibraltar; to Drs Jane Crispin, Amy Frost and John Eustace for advice on medical matters; to the journalist and writer Mark Urban for giving so freely of his military expertise; to writer, activist and founder of openDemocracy, Anthony Barnett, for educating my in the manners of New Labour in its dying days; and to Clare Algar and her colleagues at the legal charity Reprieve, for instructing me in the British Government's latest assaults on our liberty, whether implemented or planned.
I remember criticising Carne Ross on these pages before for his so-far-but-no-further radicalism & naive celebration of the Rojava experiment even when his own footage showed child soldiers being put in front of ISIS. Maybe somebody else will know about the others he namechecks. Calling Mark Urban a 'journalist and writer' though? Shurely shome mishtake!