Biohazard

PRAISE FOR BIOHAZARD

"An autobiographical tour of America's worst-case nightmare: a massive, highly capable biological warfare program in enemy hands."

— Newsday

"THIS IS A GRIPPING BOOK. The technical details are vivid and terrible even as the human story unfolds. It was fascinating— and chilling — to peer inside this awesome war machine."

— C. J. Peters, author of Virus Hunter, former deputy commander of USAMRIID, now at the CDC

"As a top scientist in the Soviet biowarfare program and the inventor of the world's most powerful anthrax, Ken Alibek has stunned the highest levels of the U.S. government with his revelations. Now, in a calm, compelling, utterly convincing voice, he tells the world what he knows. Modern biology is producing weapons that in killing power may exceed the hydrogen bomb. Ken Alibek describes them with the intimate knowledge of a top weaponeer."

— Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone

"READ AND BE AMAZED. An important and fascinating look into a terrifying world of which we were blissfully unaware. While we all grew up with the anxiety of the threat of a nuclear winter, little did we know there was an equally horrific menace from biotechnology. Biohazard takes you behind the scenes of the Soviet Union's clandestine bioweapons program."

— Robin Cook, author of Contagion

"U.S. intelligence officials who know what Alibek said in secret debriefings after his defection in 1992 give his new account considerable credence. They have called him highly believable about the subjects he knows firsthand."

— St. Paul Pioneer Press