Among the 15 most anticipated books of the summer, according to People magazine
From Annie Jacobsen, the bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book about a topic she has long reported on: biological warfare.
A laboratory accident, a biological attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society.
In this important new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, government, medical, and military responsibilities, Annie Jacobsen addresses exactly this scenario.It will only be a few days of a global contagion like this before the infrastructure built to handle these dangerous conditions finds itself in a battle for human survival.
The fallout: mass death, total societal collapse, widespread rebellion, massive chaos, and a pandemic-ravaged wasteland that no longer resembles modern civilization. In other words: dystopia.Following the thrilling narrative style that propelled "Nuclear War" to the New York Times bestseller list, Jacobsen looks deeply into a situation that is in some ways the antithesis of a nuclear bomb: no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or explosion.
Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small, and something so malicious, that it only produces evil when used for evil.This is what could happen; A timely roadmap for the hours, days, and weeks after the release of a biological agent, the most important and forward-looking journalism in preparing for urgent societal upheaval.
