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All thanks must start with Toni Mendez, my agent, who’s been there through all the beginnings of which this first hardcover is the most exciting. Of course, it never would have happened without the editorial brilliance of Ann Maurer and Tor’s Natalia Aponte, who pushed for more with this one and got it. Tom, Linda, John, Yolanda and everyone else at the top of the Tor/Forge family never put product before people—the rest of our industry could learn something from them.

The challenge to make
The Fires of Midnight
technologically precise was one of the greatest I have ever faced and could never have been achieved without the genius and foresight of Dr. Alvan Fisher, Emery Pineo (who makes the impossible only a toll call away), and especially John Signore who explains blood work even more clearly than Hemo the Magnificent! Thanks also to John Rizzieri for the Brookhaven research, Michael Sherman for Cambridge locales, Dr. David Bindleglass for Harvard, Walt Mattison for weapons assistance along with being my tutor in the field of Special Ops, Dr. Mort Korn for his typically clear critical eye, and Caroline Oyama of the New York Public Library.

I can promise you that the recipes that appear on pages 79-80, 105, 208, and 315-16 didn’t come from my kitchen. For those tempted by
them, these and thousands of others can be found in
The New York Times Cook Book
¹.

My final acknowledgment goes to Gordon Kinder, the actual author of the poem, “The Fires of Midnight.” He penned it for me in exchange for two Pearl Jam tickets; I expect we’ll be seeing his name in print again someday at a much fairer price!

Other Books by Jon Land

The Alpha Deception
The Council of Ten
Day of the Delphi
The Doomsday Spiral
The Eighth Trumpet
The Gamma Option
Kingdom of the Seven
Labyrinth
The Legacy of the Tau
The Lucifer Directive
The Ninth Dominion
The Omega Command
The Omicron Legion
The Valhalla Testament
Vortex

Notes

Craig Claiborne, Harper and Row, New York, 1990

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

THE FIRES OF MIDNIGHT

A Forge Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10010

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Design by Lynn Newmark

eISBN 9781429956949

First eBook Edition : July 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Land, Jon.

The fires of midnight / Jon Land.

p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”