An Evening with Annie Jacobsen

Coronado Public Library in partnership with Warwick's and the Friends of the Coronado Public Library, presents Annie Jacobsen discussing "Biological War: A Scenario." Jacobsen is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario," will share insights into her latest work in which she explore a chilling scenario where a deliberate biological attack unleashes a global pandemic that rapidly overwhelms public health systems and triggers the collapse of modern society. Drawing on interviews with top government, military, and medical experts, she traces the hours, days, and weeks following such an event, revealing how quickly civilization could descend into chaos.

This event is a fund-raiser for the Friends of the Coronado Public Library and a paid ticket is required to enter. Tickets are available for purchase HERE.

Ticket options are:

$10 entry only

$33 plus tax and fees for admission for one person and one copy of Biological War: A Scenario

$43 plus tax and fees for admission for two people and one copy of Biological War: A Scenario

Free tickets are available with the presentation of a military ID at check in while tickets are available. Please reserve your free ticket here.

Check-in starts/doors open at 6:15 p.m. Please print out your tickets or have the QR code available on your phone.

Seating is first-come, first served.

"With Book" ticketholders will receive a copy of Biological War: A Scenario at check-in.

Additional books will be available for purchase at this event.

The Nautilus Room is located at the Coronado Community Center 1845 Strand Way. Free public parking is available.

About Annie Jacoben

ANNIE JACOBSEN is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her books include: AREA 51; OPERATION PAPERCLIP; THE PENTAGON’S BRAIN; PHENOMENA; SURPRISE, KILL VANISH, and FIRST PLATOON.

Her newest book, NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO, is an international bestseller.

Jacobsen’s books have been named Best of the Year and Most Anticipated by outlets including The Washington Post, USA Today, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, Apple, and Amazon. She has appeared on countless TV programs and media platforms—from PBS Newshour to Joe Rogan—discussing war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security. Audiences have ranged from The Vatican to The United Nations.

She also writes and produces TV, including Tom Clancy’s JACK RYAN.

Jacobsen graduated from Princeton University where she was Captain of the Women’s Ice Hockey Team. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Kevin and their two sons.

About "Biological War: A Scenario"

A lab accident, a bio-attack, a global pandemic, and the collapse of human society. In this essential new book, based on dozens of new interviews with experts with high-level political, governmental, medical, and military responsibility, Annie Jacobsen examines this very scenario. It would be only a matter of days from such a global infection before the infrastructure built to handle this gravest of situations would be in a battle for human existence.

The fallout: mass death, total societal breakdown, widespread insurrection, anarchy, and a plague-ravaged wasteland that no longer resembles modern civilization. In other words: dystopia.

Following the gripping narrative style that launched Nuclear War to the New York Times bestseller list, Jacobsen looks deeply at a situation that is in some ways the opposite of a nuclear bomb: There is no mushroom cloud, no shock wave or blast. Instead, the scenario that could end the world as we know it begins with something so small, and something so malicious, that when used for evil, only evil can result.

This is what could happen; a ticking-clock roadmap to the hours, days, and weeks following the release of a biological agent, that serves as the most essential, forward-looking journalism in preparation for urgent societal upheaval.

Annie Jacobsen on Facebook / Instagram