Deo de Wit is the Director of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Gosford Hospital in NSW, Australia. Throughout his career he has maintained a keen interest in bioterrorism and has become concerned about the consequences of deadly infectious diseases falling into the hands of criminal and fundamentalist elements. He was motivated to write this novel because of the uncontrolled swine influenza and Asian bird flu pandemics and the devastation that equine influenza caused the horse industry in Australia. This is his first work of fiction. Infections.net.au Infections.net.au