on this adventure with me have been some very special people my parents , niklas and ingegard , who did their best to work their way through the dense , confusing and unnavigable tome i produced in high school and have supported my writing since i could barely walk ; karley , who convinced me to stop sitting on a finished manuscript and actually edit it , and gave me the push i needed to give self-publishing a go ; thomas and kathleen moore , who read the novel as impartial observers and gave terrific feedback on which characters needed more meat , which political commentary needed to be trimmed down , and which action sequences were awesome ; and to ronnell d. porter , for designing an awesome cover that i didnt know was the right cover until i saw it now i cant imagine using anything else .