Started reading a new book called "Pandemonium" last week. As usual with non fiction, I started reading in the middle, a chapter concerning the anthrax by mail event in the fall of 2001. Concerns me a little bit for an event which changed the rules dramatically on how mail gets processed and opened and killed upward to 50 people, that I didn't know it was a home grown strain. That is, the particular type of anthrax had been traced back to a dead cow from Texas in 1981, which only military personel and those connected to labs had access too. I wonder if that got as much press at the time as the panic side of things, or if I just wasn't paying attention. I didn't know until last week the actual method of dispersment was considered professionally done in the grade of anthrax, the fine glass powder that propelled it into the air...
I start books in the middle to see if they grab me, have something to offer that's worth my time. Mostly this stuff is in the middle, I find. This book? I'll be restarting on the first page, and so far I highly recommend it.