Sleeper Cell

THE FIRST VICTIMSIt starts in an L.A. emergency room. Fourteen cases of fever, chills, and unexplainable bleeding. Fourteen deaths.THE FIRST CLUEThen 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 DEFENSENow, 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 thrillertimely 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