Invasive: A Novel

Summary

???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)

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. ???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 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.