[Dog]

Can you give us a thumbnail idea of what is in that book??

[Travis McGee]

This is what I remember of THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus:

Plague (bacillis pestis) breaks out badly in an Algerian port city. The officials go into deep deep denial at the phase when strong medical and quarantine measure interventions might have stopped it.

The "chamber of commerc" types scream to the mayor "we will be ruined if you quarantine these areas". So the plague gets a strong grip.

By the time that there is no hiding it, it is too late, and the mayor declares quarantines, but the panicked citizens flee in terror in all directions.

[True Capitalist]

The Plague by Albert Camus is a superb existential book, but I found it more valuable a read of human drama and emotion than a how-to for stopping biological terrorism. Actually, The Plague also came into my mind after WTC II because it examines how people faced with tradgedy change their life perspective - i.e. they try assure loved ones how much they love them while they still can.

For a graphic nonfiction book (written like a novel) on viruses, nothing beats THE HOT ZONE by Preston about the Ebola virus.

For biological warfare, there was a frightening book out called BIO-HAZARD by one of the former heads of the Soviet Unions biological weapons program. The Soviet's had worked out many of the kinks for using biological weapons and unfortunately much of their workproduct can't be accounted for.