Book One of the Legacy Trilogy
Bioweapon
In a world at peace, a secret war has begun.
A dystopian technothriller. A generation after the world fell apart, the World Government keeps the peace one implant at a time. In the Australian desert, a young rebel watches his home burn. In London, a journalist finds a genocide the network is hiding.
Ebook and paperback November 2026
The book
In the Australian desert, the government’s Cleansing burns Rin Renslow’s home to ash. He sets out across the planet to protect a woman he has never met.
In London, a stranger’s footage reaches investigative journalist Leah Sudeski. She pulls the thread and finds genocide on the other end. With a target on her back, she must reach the rebellion alive and bring the truth to a world that doesn’t know it’s enslaved.
A generation after Ragnarok fractured the world, the World Government has stitched it back together. One implant at a time. The Lync network hums behind every eye. Peace. Order. Connection.
In a world at peace, a secret war has begun.
For readers of Red Rising, Wool and Altered Carbon.
Content notes: violence and combat, genocide, some strong language and drug use. No sexual content.
The world
Four words you’ll meet on the first pages.
- Ragnarok
- The catastrophe that fractured the world a generation before the story begins.
- The World Government
- The power that stitched the planet back together afterwards, and keeps it that way.
- The Lync
- The implant network that hums behind every eye. Peace, order and connection, for everyone.
- The Cleansing
- What the government calls the campaign that burns Rin Renslow’s desert home to ash.
From 2012 to now
Bioweapon began as Bioweapon: New Beginnings, first published in 2012. This edition is a much bigger book. Part One, Legacy, is that story rewritten. Part Two, Deliverance, was written soon after the original and sat unpublished for years. It has been rewritten for this edition.
If you read the original, this is where the story goes next.
Jeremy K Bowden
Jeremy K Bowden first published a version of Bioweapon in 2012, then spent years rewriting and expanding it — long enough to watch some of the technology he imagined edge out of science fiction and into modern reality. Bioweapon opens the Legacy Trilogy. He lives and writes on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.
Book Two, Hacker, is being written now.
Press, libraries and events
Jeremy is available for interviews, podcasts, library talks and readings, in person on the Mid North Coast and online anywhere. Review copies are available for media and reviewers.
Bookshops and libraries can order the paperback through Ingram using the ISBN.
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