Invasive

A gripping sci-fi tech thriller, set in the eye-opening, paranoid world of the electrifying Zeroes-from the New York Times-bestselling author of Wanderers. Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI a 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. &quote;I've got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies,&quote; he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn't say. What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible someone weaponizing the natural world in a most unnatural way. Discovering who and why will 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 predicted a new threat both ancient and cutting-edge that could wipe humanity off the earth. &quote;Enthralling . . . Wendig does an impeccable job blending fact and fiction as he describes invasive species and insects being used as biological weapons.&quote; The Washington Post&quote;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.&quote; Kirkus Reviews (starred review)