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Nick Cook (writer) Nick Cook (writer) Nicholas Julian Cook is a consultant to companies in the defence industry on the issue of climate change. He is a British former aviation journalist as well as the author of fiction and non-fiction works. In the 1990s, Cook was the aviation editor of "Jane's Defence Weekly", the international defence journal. He was an aerospace consultant and contributor to the journal from 2002 to 2008. He won four Journalism Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in the Defence, Business, Technology, and Propulsion categories. "The Hunt For Zero Point", published by Century Random House in the UK in