Biological War: A Scenario

《時人》雜誌最受期待的15本夏季新書之一。

出自《核戰：預演》（Nuclear War: A Scenario）暢銷作者安妮·雅各布森之手，這部作品聚焦於長期繞著她報導打轉的主題：生化戰爭。

一場實驗室意外、一場生化攻擊、一場全球大流行，以及人類社會的崩潰。在這本基於數十名具備高層政治、政府、醫療與軍事責任專家的全新訪談而成的核心新作中，安妮·雅各布森審視了這個極端情境。從發生此類全球性感染開始，僅需短短幾天，為了處理這種最嚴重局勢而建立的基礎設施，就將陷入一場人類生存之戰。

其後果是：大規模死亡、社會全面瓦解、廣泛的動亂、無政府狀態，以及一個不再與現代文明相似、被瘟疫蹂躪的荒原。換句話說：反烏托邦。

延續讓《核戰》登上《紐約時報》暢銷書榜的引人入勝敘事風格，雅各布森深入觀察了一個在某些方面與核彈完全相反的情境：這裡沒有蕈狀雲，沒有衝擊波或爆炸。相反地，這個可能結束我們所知世界的場景，始於某種極其微小且惡意的東西，當它被用於惡行時，唯有惡果隨之而來。

這就是可能發生的情況；一份關於生化戰劑釋放後數小時、數天與數週的倒數計時路線圖，作為為了應對緊急社會劇變而準備的最關鍵、具前瞻性的新聞調查。

One of People's 15 Most Anticipated Books of Summer

From Annie Jacobsen, the author of the bestselling Nuclear War: A Scenario, a book on a subject that has long orbited her reporting: biological warfare.

A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this essential new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario. It would be only a matter of days from such a global infection before the infrastructure built to handle this gravest of situations would be in a battle for human existence.

The fallout: mass death, total societal breakdown, widespread insurrection, anarchy, and a plague-ravaged wasteland that no longer resembles modern civilization. In other words: dystopia.

Following the gripping narrative style that launched Nuclear War to the New York Times bestseller list, Jacobsen looks deeply at a situation that is in some ways the opposite of a nuclear bomb: There is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small, and something so malicious, that when used for evil, only evil can result.

This is what could happen; a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.