Sleeper Cell

Book excerpt: 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 — and the world is thrown into chaos… "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 — probable, perhaps inevitable. A fabulous read." — Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author "Anderson has done his homework. Sleeper Cell is chilling." — Stephen Coonts