Sleeper Cell

THE FIRST VICTIMS

It starts in an L.A. emergency room. Fourteen cases of fever, chills, and unexplainable bleeding. Fourteen deaths.

THE FIRST CLUE

Then the Pentagon website is breached and a warning is posted — of a plague being unleashed on the infidels. For the members of Biodefense, the nations 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 Biodefenses Alan Thorpe: the weapon was developed and spread in the U.S. — by a sleeper cell within our own borders.

THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE

Now, its 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 thriller…timely 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