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Ted Soqui is a Los Angeles-based freelance photojournalist with over 30 years of shooting experience. His editorial clients include LA Weekly, NY Times, The Guardian, and Time. His art prints can also be found at the Robert Berman Gallery and the Autry Museum of the West as part of their permanent collection. Cole Coonce (born 1961) is an author and literary journalist. Coonce started writing for automotive and drag-racing magazines in the 1990s, with a series of "new journalism"-type features published by Super Stock & Drag Illustrated, Full Throttle News, Popular Hot Rodding, Gearhead, and Hot Rod Magazine. During that period, he penned Infinity Over Zero, a history of the land speed record that is the only non-partisan account of how Andy Green and the Thrust SSC jet car broke the sound barrier while setting the only supersonic Land Speed Record. The publication of Infinity Over Zero solidified Coonce's reputation as hot rodding's definitive gonzo-type journalist, as evidenced by the book review in AutoWeek asking the reader to "imagine Dennis Hopper from Apocalypse Now writing a history of the Land Speed Record."