About the Book
When thousands fall ill after a high-profile festival, agencies see an outbreak. Controls engineer Knox Ramsey sees fingerprints in the data—subtle manipulations across agricultural setpoints, cold-chain telemetry, and processing parameters. The weapon isn't a pathogen; it's the recipe that tells machines what to do.
From Detroit to Shanghai, Knox traces a breach through real industrial systems—PLCs, HMI screens, and cloud models—while federal response grinds under pressure. As the clock runs down, a single corrupted parameter threatens to turn the food supply into a delivery mechanism.
Why it hits different
- Technical authenticity: the controls, failure modes, and cyber tradecraft reflect how these systems actually behave.
- Biology meets code: light spectra, stress signaling, and delayed phototoxicity—explained without fluff.
- Institutional realism: what agencies can do fast, what they can't, and how politics bends the arc.