Cold Storage

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to all who helped get this book out of my head and into your hands—Brian Murray, Zachary Wagman, Dan Halpern, Laura Cherkas, Miriam Parker, Sonya Cheuse, Meghan Deans, Allison Saltzman, and Will Staehle at Ecco; Mollie Glick, Brian Kend, Richard Lovett, and Danial Mondanipour at CAA; David Fox; Mike Lupica; and Dr. Andrei Constantinescu, who was of enormous help with the science. Anything that is too fanciful here is not his fault.

For encouragement and early reads, thanks also to Melissa Thomas, John Kamps, Howard Franklin, Gavin Polone, Will Reichel, and Brian DePalma. Special thanks to my son Ben, whose dreamy sense of story and vibrant creativity were with me every step of the way; to my son Nick, whose infectious enthusiasm and first look at my earliest pages were invaluable; to my son Henry, for sharing his exuberant love of science in general and Ophiocordyceps in particular; and to my daughter, Grace, who’s taught me there’s a whole other gender out there and they tend toward the awesome. And thanks to all four of you for somehow understanding Dad can do horror and still be a nice guy.