The Bug Hunter: A Novel

A genetically engineered toxin races through America’s food supply…As terrorists plot a new attack using a deadly virus spread by insect vectors.

Nature itself has been turned into a weapon of mass destruction. And only one man can stop it.

The year is 2026, and Gabriel Marx and his wife Claire are living a quiet life in California’s Russian River Valley. An Iraq War veteran turned vintner with training in genomics, Gabriel has brought the latest in genetic engineering to Landmark Estates in an effort to help the winery fend off insect-based threats to their vines exacerbated by climate change.

One day a stream of black SUVs carrying Homeland Security Secretary Jason Witt shows up at the vineyard, and Gabriel is reluctantly recruited to help uncover a terrorist attack using genetically engineered insects to poison American agriculture.

Partnered with Department of Homeland Security Agent Lee Jensen, Gabriel is drawn into a complex web of rogue scientists with links to ISIS and Chechen terrorists, uncovering a plan to cripple the American economy while killing millions with a deadly virus.

Merging cutting-edge synthetic biology and international terrorism, THE BUG HUNTER is both thriller and cautionary tale of how advances in technology can be used to turn nature itself into a devastating weapon.

Publisher's Weekly calls THE BUG HUNTER a "Tense thriller that doesn't pull any punches!"