Biological War
A Scenario
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Published:30th Jul '26
Should be back in stock very soon
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
There is an invisible weapon among us. By the time you know you are a victim, it has turned you into a killer.
'Even more perversely thrilling than Nuclear War: A Scenario' Observer
'New Fear Unlocked . . . all too credible . . . the author's timing is impeccable' Sunday Times, Book of the Week
A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this explosive new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario.
There is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small and malicious, that when used for evil, only evil can result.
This is what could happen; a roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.
'This book moves like a meteor'New York Times
'Biological War is difficult to put down, but it is even harder to stop thinking about once finished'Literary Review
'Important... persuasive and unnerving' New Yorker
'Energetic, detailed and disturbing . . . an engrossing, plausible book'The Economist
'Read this book. It is a better briefing on the problem than the one we received in Downing Street six years ago' Spectator
Very effective . . . you might argue that her books on nuclear and biological warfare establish a new genre we might call New Fear Unlocked . . . all too credible . . . the author's timing is impeccable. * Sunday Times, Book of the Week *
Read this book. It is a better briefing on the problem than the one we received in Downing Street six years ago. -- James Phillips * Spectator *
Energetic, detailed and disturbing . . . an engrossing, plausible book * The Economist *
A persuasive and unnerving argument. * New Yorker *
Graphic and sobering . . . Jacobsen is back with another scenario that promises to be even more ghastly and perversely thrilling than [Nuclear War: A Scenario]. -- Killian Fox * Observer *
A scrupulously realistic book about the inconceivable…This is important work...BiologicalWar is an indictment of the weapons programs that created our discomfiting reality, and of a leadership that has allowed it to continue. * New Yorker *
This book moves like a meteor… Biological War is a heavily researched book about contagious and potentially civilization-ending pathogens…That so many were willing to talk to her, and have their names affixed to this book, indicates the esteem in which she is held. * New York Times *
Intriguing . . . Jacobsen is a first rate researcher * Irish Independent *
A compelling and deeply unsettling examination of how biological warfare could shape the next global catastrophe . . . Biological War is difficult to put down, but it is even harder to stop thinking about once finished. -- Hamish de Bretton-Gordon * Literary Review *
Horrifying . . . a good read -- Jacob Aron * New Scientist *
Biological War: A Scenario will scare your pants off, but in a deliciously readable fashion. * Boston Globe *
A terrifying account of what lurks on the nightmarish fringes of reality, written with the pace of a Hollywood thriller. * Press Association *
ISBN: 9781911742029
Dimensions: 242mm x 164mm x 37mm
Weight: 640g
432 pages