Alister Hodge is an emergency nurse practitioner, who lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters. He is also a clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney, the author of numerous journal and textbook publications, and the cocreator of an app to support triage nurse development in Australia. As a mental break from providing healthcare in a busy Emergency Department, Alister leaves behind the everyday traumas and horror of the real world, by creating new ones for a postapocalyptic landscape. His books include The Viperob Files, Plague War: Outbreak, and Cavern.