dark echo

Becoming increasingly excited about the prospect of the publication next month of Dark Echo in the States. I'm optimistic it might do well because the character at the heart of the story is American. He is Harry Spalding, a jazz-age playboy and Paris expatriate who has built and sails the racing schooner of the title.
I based him on Harry Crosby, a Black Bay Bostonian who knew Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris in the 1920s and subsequently shot himself in a suicide pact with his mistress in New York during that decade.
Crosby was affected mentally by his experience as a volunteer ambulance driver in the Great War. After it, he became a poet and founded the Black Sun Press. He became increasingly reckless and decadent in his private life but was insulated against the usual consequences by his immense wealth.
I asked myself the question, what if Crosby had lived and just kept on becoming more and more debauched? Thus he became the inspiration for Spalding in the novel; though Spalding is not slavishly based on Crosby. Once I started to write, he developed a character all his own. In the novel, he's also compared to Jay Gatsby. But as my female protagonist Suzanne points out, Gatsby was a bootlegger. Spalding was the Devil himself.
I'm hoping readers across the pond receive the novel kindly.