Joseph Theroux has previously published on novel, Black Coconuts, Brown Magic (Dial, Doubleday). He has written fiction and historical articles for Pacific Islands Monthly, New Pacific, Hawaii, Honolulu Magazine, Spirit of Aloha, Historic Nantucket, The Hawaiian Journal of History and The Journal of Pacific History. He has lived in Samoa, Hawaii and Cape Cod. The cover painting of The Devil's Throat, "Halema'uma'u Crater," is by the author.