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Author <font color=yellow>Duane Swierczynski</font> helped <I>CSI</I> creator <font color=yellow>Anthony Zuiker</font> turn his <I>Level 26</I> series into a reality.<p>As CSI Files previously <A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/news/190509_01.shtml">reported</a>, Zuiker collaborated with Swierczynski to create the first "digi-novel", <I>Level 26: Dark Origins</I>. "The story is 100% Zuiker's," Swierczynski explained on his <A class="link" HREF="http://secretdead.blogspot.com/">blog</a>. "I'm the wordslinger he tapped to help tell the tale."<p>The <I>Level 26</I> series is "a hybrid of print and digital video," Swierczynski said. "[Y]ou read about 20 pages of the novel, then have the chance to jump online and watch a three-minute video to enhance the experience. The book does stand on its own, but it's so much better to take the ride as Zuiker intended."<p>Swierczynski described the series as "a cool new way to experience a thriller." Usually, he explained, a novel is released, and a movie may follow months or years later. "Well, this is both experiences slammed together, drawing on the strengths of each to tell a seriously wild, intense and scary-as-shit story," he said. "As a guy who loves books, who loves movies, who especially loves scary books and movies... this is a dream project for me."<p>The other thing that drew Swierczynski to Zuiker's project was the villain of the series. "I'm not into spoilers, so you won't get any out of me... but holy God wait until you meet this thing," he revealed. "The moment Zuiker told me about it over the phone last summer was the moment I knew I had to be part of this."<p>The original information is from Swierczynski's <A class="link" HREF="http://secretdead.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-level.html">Secret Dead Blog</a>.<center></center>