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"Ben Calix is a top spy left out in the cold, abandoned by his agency and exposed to a world of elite predators. To save thousands of lives he must let go of his sense of injustice and come to grips with his own insignificance" -- Provided by publisher.

Working on a secret mission in northern Alaska, bio-terror expert Joe Rush discovers that a team of dead researchers had been infected with the world's most deadly disease, and he must uncover the truth in order to save thousands of lives--including his own.

"Joe Ledger fights a secret society that intends to use their version of the ten plagues of Egypt to disrupt the world economy and profit from the chaos."--from NoveList.

Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she has everything under control...until she collides with the former love of her life, back from the dead. Recruiting Cole to save millions may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes--and the clock is ticking. When Maddox crashes back into Cole Matthews' life nine years after she left...

"New York FBI counterterrorism agent Nathan Donovan receives a phone call from an eighty-year-old man named Li who has a story to tell - a story too fantastic to believe but too terrible for Donovan to ignore." "Li tells the story of Sato Matsushita, a brilliant bioweapons scientist, a man waging a personal war against the United States. His mission: to destroy America with bubonic plague - beginning with the city of New York." "The old man has tracked...

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Panic Room, and War of the Worlds: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism. When Pentagon bio-terror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of...

A lethal germ is unleashed in the U.S. mail. A chain of letters spreads terror from Florida to Washington, D.C., from New York to Connecticut, from the halls of Congress to the assembly lines of the U.S. Postal Service. Five people die, and ten thousand more line up for antibiotics to protect against exposure. The government, already outsmarted by the terrorist hijackers of 9/11, leaves its workers vulnerable and a diabolical killer on the loose. Based...

In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.

"Former army sniper Ben Benedict struggles to hide his PTSD from a new boss at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But when he shoots at a teenager fleeing a grisly gang murder, he must see ICE therapist Dr. Annagreit Schuster before he can work again. Anna recognizes Ben's instability and recommends immediate leave. But Ben is the only agent able to unravel a plot that uses D.C. gang members to deliver a WMD. Despite Anna's best efforts, Ben is...

Thirteen-year-old Anna-Jane's summer at Camp Chester takes a dark turn when the world is faced with a bioterrorist attack, and she and her cabinmates band together to survive.