James Marshall SmithJames Marshall Smith is an award-winning author and scientist with a research career that has spanned multiple disciplines from biophysics to terrorism response. His work has taken him around the globe, providing source material for intriguing characers and alluring insight to his fiction. His first novel, Silent Source, was described by the San Francisco Book Review as a "stunning debut." The Manhattan Book Review praised him as the "master of suspense" and compared his fiction to the writing of James Patterson. Hybrid was a short-list finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Award and a finalist for the Colorado Gold Novel Contest. James lives in Georgia with his wife, June, and their bossy Maltese, Georgie. You can find him online at www.JamesMarshallSmith.com. Read More Read Less