{"product_id":"9780345466631","title":"The Demon in the Freezer","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines.”—\u003c\/i\u003eRichard  Danzig, former secretary of the navy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first major bioterror event in the United  States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who  work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological  weapons. In \u003ci\u003eThe Demon in the Freezer,\u003c\/i\u003e his first nonfiction book since \u003ci\u003eThe Hot Zone,\u003c\/i\u003e a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid,  the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort  Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and  now the epicenter of national biodefense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid,  a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world’s most lethal emerging  viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information  on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and  win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science,  the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at  the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology  institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost  certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq  and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs  are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant  to all vaccines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated  its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York  and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the government’ s response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story  is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jahrling  is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox  virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox  and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last  bold experiment fails.","brand":"Richard Preston","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":45893604180180,"sku":"9780345466631","price":13.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3f755310-567e-406c-9276-24752437722c.jpg?v=1732406222","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780345466631","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}