The Homefront Directive - Harris Schwartz;Writers of the West

They called it a demonstration. The country called it a threat.

When an unknown bioagent triggers contamination alerts at a Denver water treatment facility, intelligence analyst Jack Rence recognizes what the official investigation refuses to see: this is not an accident. It is a message.

Tracing a pattern that spans seventeen American cities, Jack uncovers a network unlike anything in the threat databases. Not a terrorist cell. Not a foreign operation. Something harder to stop: a movement of scientists, engineers, and bureaucrats who were failed by the institutions they trusted, now using their insider knowledge to prove those institutions cannot protect the public they claim to serve.

At its center: Dr. Erik Vance, a former biotech researcher who watched corporate interests bury evidence of harm and emerged with a philosophy, a network, and a plan he calls a correction.

As Jack races to dismantle the network before its final phase, he confronts an adversary who may be wrong about everything except the diagnosis. And an argument he cannot stop thinking about long after the operation should be over.

The Homefront Directive is a propulsive, ideas-driven thriller spanning Denver, Washington D.C., Norway, Svalbard, and Iceland. For readers of Daniel Silva, Vince Flynn, and Tom Clancy who want their action grounded in the questions that survive it.

The threat was visible. The danger was the argument it carried.