R. Scott Decker

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Available from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in Hardback, Paperback, Audio and Kindle

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His first narrative non-fiction book, Recounting the Anthrax Attacks: Terror, the Amerithrax Task Force and Evolution of Forensics in the FBI, won multiple honors, including:

Royal Dragonfly Book Award for Science & Technology,

Beverly Hills Book Award for New Non-Fiction,

Best Book Awards for True Crime & Narrative Non-Fiction,

Book Excellence Award for True Crime.

(updated 5/23/25)

"A remarkable scientific whodunnit that peels back some of the biggest mysteries surrounding the case known as Amerithrax. From his own experiences as a lead investigator, Scott Decker paints an intimate and chilling portrait of the hunt for the elusive killer behind history's worst bioterrorist attack."
— Joby Warrick, author of Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS; winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

"The book is fascinating and absolutely authentic—a behind-the-scenes account, never before told in such detail, of the FBI's forensic detective work into the chilling anthrax bioterror attacks after 9/11. Decker, who ran the "dark biology" part of the FBI's investigation, recounts how agents and scientists used cutting-edge tools of biology to narrow down the search for the perpetrator and finally focus in on one suspect. I don't think the world realizes just what the FBI accomplished or how they did it, or the pitfalls and difficulties of the investigation, but Decker tells us the story from the inside."

—Richard Preston, NY Times Bestselling Author, The Hot Zone and The Demon in the Freezer.