The Demon In The Freezer: The Terrifying Truth About The Threat From Bioterrorism

Soon after 9/11, the western world woke up to an even greater threat: bioterrorism. The deadly anthrax attacks on October 2001 focused attention on "hot" agents and on the probability that illegal stocks of smallpox - eradicated in 1979 - are held by hostile states with links to terrorist groups. Worse, with genetic engineering, they could now create a vaccine-resistant superpox.

Richard Preston details the official response to the anthrax attacks and describes the race against time to develop a drug that will beat smallpox if this demon in the freezer is unleashed on the planet once more.