From the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario — an instant New York Times bestseller on the subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare.
A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. Based on dozens of new interviews with experts holding high-level political, governmental, medical and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this scenario in forensic detail. It would be only a matter of days from a global infection before the infrastructure built to handle this gravest of situations would be in a battle for human existence.
Following the gripping narrative style that launched Nuclear War to the bestseller list, Jacobsen looks at a threat that is, in some ways, the opposite of a nuclear bomb: no mushroom cloud, no shockwave. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small that, used for evil, only evil can result — a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days and weeks following the release of a biological agent.
Praise
“A scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable… important work.” — The New Yorker
“This book moves like a meteor.” — New York Times Book Review
About the author
Annie Jacobsen is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Area 51, Operation Paperclip, The Pentagon's Brain, Phenomena, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, First Platoon, and the international bestseller Nuclear War: A Scenario.
