Biological Warfare

One of People's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare. A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this...

On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company - the now-legendary Band of Brothers - from the confusion and chaos of the D-day invasion to the final capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest. But Winters' story didn't end there; it was only the beginning. He was a quiet, reluctant hero whose modesty and strength drew the admiration of not only his men but millions worldwide.

In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease...a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. The Chinese government says the rumors aren't true, but no one is allowed in or out of Tibet. At the Pentagon, admiral James Curtiss learns that satellite images prove that a massive genocide is underway. This is no disease. It's a weapons test. Chinese scientists have developed a way to kill based on a person's genetic traits.

Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. The Evolution is Coming. In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to...

A leading epidemiologist shares his "powerful and necessary" (Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone) stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for global epidemics -- featuring a new preface on COVID-19. Unlike natural disasters, whose...

Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.

At the dawn of the 20th century, humanity was facing global disaster. Mass starvation, long predicted for the fast-growing population, was about to become a reality. A call went out to the worlds scientists to find a solution. This is the story of the two enormously gifted, fatally flawed men who found it: the brilliant, self-important Fritz Haber and the reclusive, alcoholic Carl Bosch. Together they discovered a way to make bread out of air, built city-sized factories, controlled world markets, and saved millions of lives.

In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of...

Silent Vector: Rise of the Resistance The virus doesn’t just kill. It recruits. It didn't start with mindless hordes. It started with a quiet reprogramming of the people we trust most. Police chiefs, hospital directors, and government officials—infected and operating with a singular, chilling purpose: to spread the vector before anyone realized the war had already been lost. For five days, the infected look like us. They speak like us. They lead us. Then, the "intellectual phase" ends, and the mindless hunger begins. Sarah Miller saw the pattern when her own supervisor turned. Now, ...

Silently killing us, our family and friends, the global plagues and toxic menaces are here, yet where are you? If you are like most Americans, you've become distracted by pastimes, passions, pleasures and psycho-sensory over-stimulation. The "Technotronic Era" is here. With it comes a New World of "non-lethal" biological and chemical weapons, and warfare applications, that are being waged against defenseless civilians. Regardless of what you now think, you are being manipulated and lethally affected, and this intelligence may be crucial to you and your family's survival. Death in the Air: ...

"Ray Porter is the perfect book narrator. He submerges so completely into each character that they come alive as individuals. He allows the story to speak rather than making it ‘his’. He’s also fun to work with –and we have done a ton of projects together. It’s to the point that I hear...

In his debut novel, Jack Bowie introduced cyber-security specialist Adam Braxton, a man who will do anything to solve a case—and protect his friends. Now Braxton returns to track an assassin and settle a very personal debt. They asked for his help to find a terrorist. Why does his government now want to silence him? America’s militia groups are executing coordinated and increasingly deadly attacks. The threat is real but the vaunted U.S. intelligence community has no idea what is happening. Their best hope to find the answer is Adam Braxton, a cyber-security specialist who also happens ...

“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of...

The first novel in a masterful trilogy about World War I with a steampunk twist by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British...

Strictly off limits to the public, Plum Island is home to virginal beaches, cliffs, forests, ponds - and the deadliest germs that have ever roamed the planet. Lab 257 blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island in the shadow of New York City is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore.

Unit 731 was established during the Sino-Japanese War in Harbin as a covert biological warfare research and development section of the Imperial Japanese Army. Besides human experimentation, they developed lethal biological weapons as an efficient way to win the war against the world. In about a decade of existence, they produced a massive amount of germs enough to kill the world three times.

One ship. One cure. Three factions ready to burn the world for it. As the *Aeterna Ascendant* founders, Captain Kane Rooker fights through a landscape of chemical fire and electrical storms to protect the master batch. But with the arrival of the Aegis International Task Force, the standoff turns into a bloodbath. In the humid dark of the engine room, Rooker must decide if the cure is worth the lives of the people who helped her build it. The time for protocols is over. The time for tactical reality has arrived.

It isn't a disease. It's an evolution. When a pristine cave system yields an ancient, predatory pathogen, Captain Kane Rooker and Dr. Mira Valen are sent in to contain the impossible. But the "T-800 of viruses" doesn't just kill—it rewrites biology in the dark. As the Phoenix Protocol incinerates everything they know, Rooker faces a final, brutal choice: die in the ashes of a military cover-up, or board the unmarked gunship of a corporate predator. Welcome to the Crimson Quarantine.

The cure is gone. In a flash of blue-white light, the physical vaccine is incinerated, leaving Captain Kane Rooker and Dr. Mira Valen in the ruins of a global hope. But the data remains the ultimate weapon. As the final traitors are brought to trial and the world heals in her wake, the ultimate tactical challenge begins: learning how to be human again. The war is won. The mission is terminated. Now, Kane must find her way home through a world that no longer needs a soldier.

Security is a cage. Captain Kane Rooker and Dr. Mira Valen are now assets of Aeterna Pharmaceuticals, held in a high-tech purgatory aboard the *Aeterna Ascendant*. But when Colonel Lancaster’s manhunt breaches the hull, the ship becomes a vertical tomb. Trapped in a hermetically sealed BSL-4 corridor, Rooker must negotiate a lethal three-way standoff where the air itself is a weapon. In the box within a box, the mission isn't rescuing the world—it's surviving the humans who want to own it.