A biological weapon is accidentally unleashed upon an unsuspecting Boston populace in a new thriller by Phil Temples, a systems administrator in the Computer Science Department at BC. In The Allston Variant (Moonshine Cove Publishing, 2019), scientist Carrie Bloomfield is recruited by the FBI to investigate a biotech company that may be secretly engineering a biological weapon to sell to a terrorist organization. When the bioweapon is released, Bloomfield must race against time to find an antidote. Temples also is the author of The Winship Affair and Helltown Chronicles, among other titles.