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Title: Henderson Author Harris Schwartz Debuts with Political Thriller About Bioterrorism, Broken Institutions, and the Fine Line Between Whistleblowing and War

United States, 22nd May 2026 -- Harris Schwartz's debut novel, The Homefront Directive, published by Writers of the West, opens in the early hours of a Denver morning with a rooftop, three people in respirators, and canisters of engineered microorganisms being released into the city's air supply. Nobody dies. The sensors go haywire and then go quiet. By noon, the mayor's office calls it an equipment glitch. The cover-up is so seamless it barely qualifies as one.That is where the book begins, and it only gets more unsettling from there.About the BookThe man behind the Denver operation is Dr. Erik Vance, a former corporate scientist who discovered that the research division he worked in had been quietly repurposed into something designed to harm people at scale. He did everything right. He documented the evidence, reported through official channels, and waited for the system to correct itself. What happened instead cost him his career, his clearance, and his faith in institutions entirely.By the time the novel opens, Vance has spent years building a movement from the wreckage of that experience. Not a terrorist cell, exactly, but something harder to categorize: a distributed network of scientists, engineers, and bureaucrats who were each betrayed by the same institutions in their own way, now coordinated around a single purpose. They are not trying to kill anyone. They are trying to make the failure visible.Chasing him is Jack Rence, a burned-out National Counter-Threat Agency analyst who has spent six months watching a threat pattern that the rest of his agency has written off as noise. When Denver breaks, Rence and his partner Maya Torres are the only people in the building who understand what they are actually looking at. Getting anyone else to believe them is a differ...

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