HOMEGROWN: THE TERROR WITHIN is terrific—fascinating, fast-paced, and frighteningly plausible. Cialan Haasnic has written a thriller so compelling, it kept me up nights—after I’d finished it.  -HARLEY JANE KOZAK Macavity, Agatha & Anthony-award winning author of Dating Dead Men and A Date You Can’t Refuse

 Cialan Haasnic’ HOMEGROWN: THE TERROR WITHIN is that rare thriller which is genuinely suspenseful and scary. --ALEXANDRA BICKS, Trident

 Haasnic is able to wield words to deliver just the right punch: smoothly stated with enough suspense to leave the reader hungry for the next sentence. I can’t wait to read the rest.  HOMEGROWN: THE TERROR WITHIN is a timely, intelligent, book with enough plots and subplots to capture every reader.                           --CLARE ELAN FOWLER, The Straus Institute at Pepperdine University

 “HOMEGROWN: THE TERROR WITHIN is perfect choice to read on a long flight...The general public has no idea of the artistic side of mathematics...[this] book might spark some interest...”  --NATHANIAL GROSSMAN, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at UCLA

 "This book went way beyond my expectations. Well written,interesting & intricate plot and it left me thinking about the implied possibilities for the future. The future = the sequel AND our future! A great read, highly recommended."   --Amazon review

 I usually don't read fiction but I liked this book and thought it very timely especially given the rumor (fact?) that the H1N1 virus of the current swine flu pandemic was manmade. Computer nerds can decide for themselves if some of the high tech computer sleuthing is plausible, but I think that the story does a good job of showing how a dedicated bioterror attack could occur.                --Amazon review

 Thanks a lot! I already hated mosquitos, and now I get to face the summer with the added fear that the little terrorists are carrying bioweapons. Great read. Now I'm off to Home Depot to buy some screens. -Amazon review

A cracking thriller; intelligent, pacy and scary too. I couldn't put it down. Normally I don't like to read thrillers late at night because I get too worked up and can't sleep. But with Homegrown, I just had to keep reading.  It is a rare thriller both intelligent and fast-paced with a real heart. The maths and biology are fascinating even to a lay person like myself. The relationship between single mum, Meredith, and her teenage son has real emotional depth. And by the end, as everything goes pear-shaped and the whole cyber/bio-terror plot comes to its all too plausible and horrifying conclusion, I found myself trawling the internet for bio-hazard suits for the whole family -- including my pets.  --Amazon review UK

 "Homegrown is an extremely geeky novel, and I mean that in the best way possible. I'm a geek myself, so the math, cyber and biology aspects of it are right down my aisle. At the same time, it's action-packed enough to grab the attention even of non-geeks, and paints a picture of a future that's very dark indeed.Meredith has recently been fired from her job, but the circumstances are suspicious. Were her teaching methods really inappropriate, or are the reasons more sinister than her boss will admit? Thankfully she's not without a job for long. The NSA finds her "Theory of Everything" to be of great interest, and want to employ her to look for potential terrorist threats around the country - especially in the light of an upcoming celebrity wedding somewhere in California.After an emergency landing of an aircraft where the entire crew and all passengers have died after what appears to be a deliberate bio-attack, Meredith's theory turns out to be even more vital than first expected, and her work becomes a race against time, to find out where the terrorists will strike next in time to prevent it. In style it reads as a mixture of Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone" mixed with a dose of the TV-series "24", as the bio-technic details and the search for terrorists compete for the reader's attention. It took Cialan Haasnic a while to set up the background to his story, and therefore the beginning is somewhat slow-moving. Don't let that deter you though, for once he takes off, it picks up with a vengeance, and I found myself struggling to read fast enough for my own liking. People who want a happy ending - or even proper closure - should stay away, as Homegrown isn't meant to stand on its own, but paves the way to a sinister sequel. However, if "Terminator 3"-style endings don't bother you, I can only recommend that you read on - but beware: it's a chilling ride. "   -Goodreads.com, LiveJournal

"Part of Cialan Haasnic’s publisher’s promotion for Homegrown: The Terror Within reads: 'This bio/cyber thriller is a frighteningly realistic wakeup call about the potential of domestic terrorism.' We’re very happy Cialan is an author, not a scientist. If you read this before you go to sleep, you might want to wear bug spray to bed.” Like Dr. Chris Holmes (The Mosquito Tapes), Cialan envisions insects being transformed into tiny missives of terror, delivering doses of a bio-engineered pathogen. Cialan discusses the inspiration behind his book and his mathematician protagonist on Saturday, September 12, at 2:00 PM. -- Mysterious Galaxy, images.booksense.com/images/stores/14202/newsletter 

Richly detailed characters navigate an intricate plot of anti-government sentiment, mathematical analysis, academic intrigue, and bioweaponry in this author’s debut novel. Meredith Satter, professor of mathematics at UC Santa Barbara, has been placed on leave for unstated reasons from her faculty position, but is quickly recruited to apply her groundbreaking theories to help the government predict terrorist threats. As a woman with a nontraditional career and a single mother of a challenging teenaged son, she faces more than her fair share of doubters and difficulties. Inspired, in part, by the author’s observations of widespread panic and paranoia in the aftermath of 9/11, this story leads into a chilling scenario of what could happen if domestic “homegrown” extremists recruited a few good minds and a few million mosquitos to deliver a deadly payload." -- Mills Quarterly