Sleeper Cell
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Publisher Description
THE FIRST VICTIMS
It starts in an L.A. emergency room. Fourteen cases of fever, chills, and unexplainable bleeding. Fourteen deaths.
THE FIRST CLUE
Then the Pentagon website is breached and a warning is posted -of a plague being unleashed on the infidels. For the members of Biodefense, the nation's top-secret agency against bioterrorism, what they thought impossible has come to pass: a nanotechnological WMD has been set loose. Intelligence traces the threat to Syria. As the president contemplates invasion, one thing becomes clear to Biodefense's Alan Thorpe: the weapon was developed and spread in the U.S. - by a sleeper cell within our own borders.
THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
Now, it's up to Thorpe and the other members of Biodefense to stop the outbreak, before more Americans die ó and the world is thrown into chaosÖ
"A smart thriller-timely and provocative." -James Rollins, national bestselling author of the Sigma Force series
"It is terrifying because it is so very plausible. No, no plausible ó probable, perhaps inevitable. A fabulous read." ó Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author
"Anderson has done his homework. Sleeper Cell is chilling." -Stephen Coonts
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Dr. Anderson's thought-provoking debut medical thriller, people are dying in Los Angeles from what appears to be a new, unknown virus. At the same time, a Web site in Indonesia warns of Allah's "nanodeath" holocaust: "His nanomachines cannot be stopped until they have destroyed every American man, woman, and child." A team of scientists spring into action to trace the origin of the bug, finding what appears to be "a microscopic machine that can reproduce itself... essentially an artificial virus." Casualties begin to mount while the team struggles to catch up; meanwhile, politicos in Washington make plans to use the attack as grounds for military action they had already been seeking to carry out. The author does a great job of building excitement by interweaving the more bookish, scientific passages with espionage involving embedded terrorists, counteragents and rogue university professors. If scenes involving Washington decision makers are oversimplified, they successfully show how cause and effect, in times of war, are almost never clearly connected. Anderson doesn't shy away from his story's natural climax (though his fictional president closes on an upbeat note, it's far from a happy ending), making this book much more cautionary than the average escapist thriller.
