Book Release: MUTE by Brad Steel — Mad Cow as a Counter-Terrorism Tool Becomes Bio-Weapon Nightmare

Brad Steel's new thriller, MUTE weaves together a tapestry of highly topical themes-and flings in a very startling twist.

A covert prion surveillance programme has been in operation for decades, conducting cattle mutilations under cover of night to track diseases like BSE (aka Mad Cow). The War on Terror has created a “need” for a new kind of biological weapon, one that can be used to target a very specific-though horribly populous-demographic.

Prion diseases, through their inherent control mechanisms, are ideally suited. Especially with a few little tweaks…

In MUTE, author Steel has created a gripping and eerily believable scenario in which the leaders of Western nations band together to do the unthinkable-convinced it is necessary, however radical.

Through characters like the charming and unstoppable Dr. Kat Francis and her lifelong Muslim friend Zaina Marikar, Steel compassionately delves into the linkages that bring us to love one another-and the differences that drive us to hate people we will never meet.

Author Steel has extensively researched the many facets of MUTE's content, from BSE and other prion diseases to little-known intricacies of veterinary medicine, even interviewing real-life cattle mutilation investigators and observing first-hand autopsies being performed by pathologists.

MUTE is set for launch April 5, 2005. Author, media and tour information are at http://www.BradSteel.com

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