John Birmingham is the author of Without Warning, Final Impact, Designated Targets, Weapons of Choice, How to Be a Man, and Leviathan, which won the National Award for Nonfiction at Australia's Adelaide Festival of the Arts.
Vanessa Johansson is a film/theater actress and voice-over artist who graduated from Carnegie Mellon and later trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. An AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, she has recorded approximately sixty audiobooks.