About the Author

GREG RUCKA is the author of SHOOTING AT IDNIGHT, SMOKER, KEEPER, FINDER and, most ecently, CRITICAL SPACE. He has worked at a variety f jobs, from theatrical fight choreographer to Emergency edical Technician. He resides in Portland, Oregon, with is wife and son, where he is currently at work on his next uspense novel, QUEEN AND COUNTRY, which Bantam ill publish in Spring 2004.