Biological War

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…Biological War 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 *
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 *
It’s gripping and very, very scary how this scenario plays out. * Transfer Orbit *
A terrifying account of what lurks on the nightmarish fringes of reality, written with the pace of a Hollywood thriller. * Press Association *
Intriguing … Jacobsen is a first rate researcher * Irish Independent *

Annie Jacobsen is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Nuclear War: A Scenario, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. A 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist, her other books include Operation Paperclip, Phenomena, and The Pentagon’s Brain, and have been translated into 26 languages. She also writes and produces TV, including Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons.

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