ABOUT THE AUTHORS ' James Patterson received the Literarian Award for Outstand- ing Service to the American Literary Community at the 2015 National Book Awards ceremony. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most number one New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide. a John Connolly has been an investigative reporter for twenty-five | years, the last twelve of them with Vanity Fair. He has written a : scores of nonfiction pieces for numerous national magazines. ° Gq es 4 Tim Malloy is a thirty-year veteran of print and television jour- a nalism. He has won eight Emmys as an investigative reporter, a : documentary maker, and war correspondent. He appears in q __ Print, on the Web, and on TV as a political analyst. a i HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022185