D'Evolution: A Novel of Bioengineered War

The war didn't start with a bomb. It started with a bite.

In the refugee camps of Syria, a young boy is bitten by a tick. Within days, he is dead-his body ravaged by a pathogen that defies every known antibiotic. Dr. Layla Hassan, a CDC epidemiologist, watches helplessly as the infection spreads through the camp. She sends a single word to her superiors in Atlanta: BLACK SWAN.

Dr. Marcus Webb, director of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch, identifies the nightmare. The bacteria is synthetic. The tick is engineered. Someone has created a bioweapon-a plague designed to be incurable. The transmission vector is a super-tick that feeds without detection, reproduces asexually, and thrives in any climate.

As millions of Americans fall victim-and the death toll climbs toward 30 million-the United States government descends into chaos. General Thaddeus "Iron" Kane advocates for the only solution he believes will work: a tactical nuclear strike on the Iranian laboratory where the pathogen was created. But President Elizabeth Hartley refuses to kill civilians to achieve victory.

It becomes a race against the clock. Layla and Webb must find a cure before the pathogen reaches its tipping point-the moment when American society collapses entirely. A classified government scenario known as D'Evolution: the irreversible breakdown of governmental authority, social cohesion, and human progress.

From the deserts of Syria to the corridors of the Pentagon, from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the streets of a collapsing New York City, D'Evolution is a harrowing thriller of scientific hubris, military desperation, and the indomitable human will to survive.

The cure exists. But finding it will cost everything.