<b>John Sandford </b>is the author of twenty-five Prey novels, most recently <i>Gathering Prey</i>, eight Virgil Flowers novels, and eight other books, including the young adult novels <i>Uncaged </i>and <i>Outraged</i>, written with Michelle Cook. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. <b>Ctein</b> is an internationally known photographer and expert on photographic printing. He holds a double degree from Caltech in English and physics, and is the author of more than five hundred articles, columns, books, and manuals. A celebrated member of the science fiction community, he lives in San Francisco.
A terrific story of alien first contact. It s a book Michael Crichton would have enjoyed, but never could have written...With the able partnership of Ctein, it s fast, scientifically believable, and peopled by characters who become good friends. Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up. Stephen King Three things to now: First, I m the world s biggest John Sandford fan. Second: I saw this book and thought... What? Third: I needn t have worried. It s vintage Sandford all the way, with all his trademark strengths and insights, except set in the future, not the present. You won t be disappointed. Lee Child Utterly captivating!...the heart of a breakneck thriller and the mind of the best science fiction (Bradbury and Heinlein come to mind).... Sandford and Ctein have brilliantly pulled off the difficult task of making a very different world familiar, proving that a born storyteller is a storyteller, whether he sets his books on mean streets or in deep space. I, for one, want more. Jeffrey Deaver