The Deep Zone: A Novel (53 page)
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Authors: James M. Tabor
My mother, Hallie Siple Tabor, contributed half of the heroine’s name. Deputy Chief Joyce Leland of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, the best supervisor any street cop could pray for, contributed the other half.
J
AMES
M. T
ABOR
is the internationally award-winning author of
Blind Descent
and
Forever on the Mountain
. He was the executive producer for the History Channel special
Journey to the Center of the World
, after having worked as a Washington, D.C., police officer, a dockmaster, a nightclub manager, a national magazine editor and television personality, a corporate vice president, and a horse wrangler. He is a mountaineer, caver, and master diver. He lives in Vermont, where he is at work on his next novel. Visit him at
jamesmtabor.com
.