1. Craig Thomas, the author of Firefox (full name David Craig Owen Thomas) died in 2011.
2. “Thomas wrote part-time, with his wife as editor, in two fields: philosophical thoughts in books of essays; and techno-thrillers, a genre whose invention is often attributed to the better-known Tom Clancy, though many fans feel that Thomas was its true originator.” (He was a teacher, but left teaching in 1977 after Wolfsbane was published.)
3. His last work before his death was a two-volume commentary on Friedrich Nietzsche.