THE FIRST VICTIMS

It starts in an L.A. emergency room. Fourteen cases of fever, chills, and unexplainable bleeding. Fourteen deaths.

THE FIRST CLUE

Then the Pentagon website is breached and a warning is posted ? of a plague being unleashed on the infidels. For the members of Biodefense, the nation's top-secret agency against bioterrorism, what they thought impossible has come to pass: a nanotechnological WMD has been set loose. Intelligence traces the threat to Syria. As the president contemplates invasion, one thing becomes clear to Biodefense's Alan Thorpe: the weapon was developed and spread in the U.S. ? by a sleeper cell within our own borders.

THE FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE

Now, it's up to Thorpe and the other members of Biodefense to stop the outbreak, before more Americans die ? and the world is thrown into chaos...

"A smart thriller...timely and provocative." ? James Rollins, national bestselling author of the Sigma Force series

"It is terrifying because it is so very plausible. No, no plausible ? probable, perhaps inevitable. A fabulous read." ? Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author

"Anderson has done his homework. Sleeper Cell is chilling." ? Stephen Coonts