Sharon DeLano, who served as my editor for The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event, also edited this book. She has therefore been the editor of what I think of as a trilogy on Dark Biology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
RICHARD PRESTON is the author of The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and of The Cobra Event, a bioterror thriller, also a New York Times bestseller. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston won the American Inst.i.tute of Physics award and is the only nondoctor ever to have received the CDC"s Champion of Prevention award. He has an asteroid named after him.