The Genius Plague

by David Walton

  I brought up the latest batch of indecipherables on my computer and selected one at random. It was time to get back to work.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  My fantastic agent Eleanor Wood was my first reader for this book, devouring it a chapter at a time as I wrote it and always asking for more. I can’t say enough how much I appreciate her encouragement and tireless efforts on my behalf.

  It’s always hard to see the flaws in my own stories, so I rely on my beta readers to see what I can’t. Thanks to Mike Shultz, David Cantine, Chad and Jill Wilson, Nadim Nakhleh, Mike Yeager, Joe Reed, Jon Louis Mann, William Taylor, and Robert Walton for their invaluable comments and ideas. A special thank you to my friend Celso Antonio Almeida, who helped me present an authentic view of Brazilian locations and culture.

  Thanks to my editor Rene Sears and all the great people at Pyr for loving my stories and putting their tremendous skills into creating this final book and putting it into your hands.

  Finally, to my family, thanks for your enthusiasm for my stories and my successes. You make my life a delight, and I love you all.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Photo by Chuck Zovko

  David Walton is the internationally best-selling author of the quantum physics murder mysteries Superposition and Supersymmetry. He won the Philip K. Dick Award for his debut novel, Terminal Mind, a cyber-thriller that takes place in the crater where the city of Philadelphia used to be. David lives near Philadelphia with his wife and seven children and leads a double life as an engineer for defense contractor Lockheed Martin. He enjoys responding to fan mail at davidwaltonfiction@gmail.com.