DOUGLAS PRESTON has published forty books of both nonfiction and fiction, of which thirty-one have been New York Times bestsellers, a half-dozen reaching the #1 position. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast series of thrillers. He also writes nonfiction pieces for the New Yorker. He worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is president emeritus of the Authors Guild and serves on the Advisory Board of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.
ALETHEIA PRESTON is the New York Times bestselling author of the Cash & Colcord novel Paradox, co-written with Douglas Preston. She is a reformed lawyer originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as an admitted adrenaline junkie, spending much of her free time finding ways to risk her life, from skiing and mountaineering to paragliding and winter camping. She and her cat Mochi live in Bozeman, Montana.