THE OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE DRAMATIC NEW FILM FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX Caesar and his followers have escaped the clutches of man, fighting their way across the Golden Gate Bridge and taking refuge in the vast redwood forest known as Muir Woods. There they hope to establish a home, far from the humans who so horribly abused them. BUT MANKIND HAS FAR WORSE THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT The "Simian Flu" has begun to strike down unsuspecting innocents throughout San Francisco. What began as isolated cases quickly becomes a full-on epidemic. There are those who blame the apes, and would seek to take revenge, while others hunt Caesar and his troop for their own insidious reasons. Either way, the result will be the same... FIRESTORM The all-new bridge between Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Greg Keyes is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels The Waterborn, The Blackgod, plus The Age of Unreason tetralogy. He has also written the Star Wars: New Jedi Order novels Edge of Victory I: Conquest, Edge of Victory II: Rebirth, and The Final Prophecy, as well as tie-ins to the popular Elder Scrolls video game franchise. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.