A gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroesâfrom the New York Timesâbestselling author of Wanderers.
Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBIâa futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It's her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.
Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. "I've got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies," he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn't say.
What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossibleâsomeone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering whoâand whyâwill take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predictedâa new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.
"Enthralling . . . Wendig does an impeccable job blending fact and fiction as he describes invasive species and insects being used as biological weapons." âThe Washington Post "Think Thomas Harris' Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knife's edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future." âKirkus Reviews (starred review)
A gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroesâfrom the New York Timesâbestselling author of Wanderers.
Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBIâa futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It's her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.
Hannah is in an airport, waiting to board a flight home to see her family, when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. "I've got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies," he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn't say.
What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossibleâsomeone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering whoâand whyâwill take her on a terrifying chase from the Arizona deserts to the secret island laboratory of a billionaire inventor/philanthropist. Hannah knows there are a million ways the world can end, but she just might be facing one she could never have predictedâa new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth.
"Enthralling . . . Wendig does an impeccable job blending fact and fiction as he describes invasive species and insects being used as biological weapons." âThe Washington Post "Think Thomas Harris' Will Graham and Clarice Starling rolled into one and pitched on the knife's edge of a scenario that makes Jurassic Park look like a carnival ride. Another rip-roaring, deeply paranoid thriller about the reasons to fear the future." âKirkus Reviews (starred review)