The Mirage Man

The anthrax mailings of 2001 triggered the FBI's biggest and most complicated investigation since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Sent anonymously from a mailbox in New Jersey, the letters targeted two United States senators, along with a network news anchor and others in the media. Five people were killed and seventeen additional victims were infected. Mail delivery to homes, businesses, and government offices was disrupted. In the aftermath of September 11, the nation feared that an insidious second wave of terrorism was under way. For years, the mailings case remained officially unsolved.
Now, for the first time, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist David Willman tells the whole gripping story of the hunt for the anthrax killer--a case that consumed the FBI and became a rallying point for launching the Iraq War. Far from Baghdad, at Fort Detrick, Maryland, stood Bruce Ivins: an accomplished microbiologist at work on patenting a next-generation anthrax...