Code Zero

Acknowledgments

As always I owe a debt to a number of wonderful people. Thanks to Dr. John Cmar of the Infectious Disease department of Johns Hopkins University Hospital; Dr. Steve A. Yetiv, Professor of Political Science, Old Dominion University; Dr. Pawel Liberski of Laboratory of Electron Microscopy and Neuropathology, Department of Molecular Pathology and Neuropathology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland; Philadelphia police officer Bob Clark; Michael Sicilia of California Homeland Security; the staff, presenters, and conferees of DragonCon in Atlanta, Georgia; Nancy Keim-Comley; Melinda Leigh, Katharine Ashe, and Chris Redding; the International Thriller Writers; the crew who helped me with video game research: J. P. Behrens, RJ Sevin, Stephen Goodman, Alex Adams, Stephen Reider, Stephen Harvey, P. J. Stanton, Garrett Cook, William J. Bivens, Herb Dorr, Mike Therrion, Charlie Miller, Tony Baker, Gabrielle Henderson, Henry Rysz, John Leasure, Tony Baker, James Frazier, Ken Varvel, Paul Merritt, Phillip Bolin, Mike Chrusciel, and Bill Versteegan; my literary agents, Sara Crowe and Harvey Klinger; all the good folks at St. Martin’s Griffin: Michael Homler, Joe Goldschein, Aleksandra Mencel, Rob Grom; and my film agent, Jon Cassir of Creative Artists Agency.

Thanks for being Joe’s “friends in the industry.”

Thanks and congrats to the winners of the various Joe Ledger contests: Michael Barbera, Jamie Sheffield, Christopher Duffner, and David Mickloas.