Biological Warfare

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“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...

Uncover the chilling military history of biological warfare, where invisible infectious diseases become deadly weapons. Perfect for a gripping daily commute or a tense, deep-focus listening session, this sobering exploration traces humanity's dark obsession with weaponizing nature. Journey from...

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.

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...

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.

Uncover the gripping military history of biological warfare and the hidden government labs weaponizing deadly pathogens. Perfect for a thought-provoking commute, this unsettling true science narrative traces the invisible enemy of engineered disease from poisoned medieval wells to Cold War...

“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...

"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...

Explore the dark intersection of military history and lethal contagion where disease becomes a devastating weapon of war. Perfect for a focused listening session, this gripping narrative transforms how you view human conflict. Discover how ancient armies and modern states weaponized pathogens...

There is an invisible weapon among us. By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer. A compelling, fast-paced, ticking clock non-fiction thriller from the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario. A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the...

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.

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: ...

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...

A dormant Soviet bio-weapon. A weaponized rage virus. And a nation entirely unprepared. Monday morning begins like any other in Tennessee. A commuter bus. A crowded emergency room. A routine traffic stop. Children heading to school. Then someone collapses. Minutes later, they rise again. It starts with a tingling sensation, followed by nausea and confusion... then an overwhelming euphoria that ends in a sudden collapse. Moments later, the infected awaken with one irresistible, biochemically engineered instinct: Bite. Infect. Repeat. As isolated acts of unexplained violence erupt, hospitals ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dr. Corinne Dowd thought she was practicing medicine at the cutting edge. She was wrong. The Telluride Center wasn’t a hospital. It was a farm. And she was the livestock. Fused to her pelvic floor is the Bio-Weld—a synthetic, living stem-cell chimera that can stop a hemorrhage, restart a stopped heart, and knit shattered bone in seconds. The ultimate military asset. Two billion dollars of pure, engineered invincibility. There’s just one problem. It’s hungry. Deny it massive calories and it will cannibalize your organs and bone marrow to survive.