Andrew Corwin is a retired American Navy Captain, who spent the last 15 years of his military career chasing down emerging diseases in Indonesia, as Director of the Navy’s WHO Collaborating Center for Emerging Diseases. Dr. Corwin went on to manage Country operations for the US CDC in Laos, and now is a Lecturer at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. Published extensively in the medical literature, this is his first novel.