<p>'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.' -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>