Paul Komesaroff is a physician and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Among his books are "Riding a Crocodile: A Physician's Tale" (2014), "Experiments in Love and Death" (2008/2014), "Objectivity, Science and Society" (2009), "Troubled Bodies" (ed., 1995), and "Pathways to Reconciliation" (ed. with Philipa Rothfield and Cleo Fleming, 2008). "Crocodile" is his first novel.