“Black Swan Impact is loaded with plot.  Vettori provides a dynamic arc that will captivate a political-thriller audience yet is grounded in the realities of US national security analysis and operations.”

- Diana Smith, Political Advisor to the US European Command, 1990-93, and the NATO South Region Command, 1993-95

 

"I learned a long-time ago as a counterterrorism agent that Black Swans happen. When they occur, our lives are changed forever.  Ripped from the headlines, Vettori has written a timely and fast-paced political-thriller.  Trust me when I say this, it's a subject that the author knows all too well.  You won't be disappointed." 

- Fred Burton, former special agent and New York Times best-selling author

 

“Having played a role in dealing with the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis myself, I found the actions of the ‘Piper Administration’ in Black Swan Impact captivating as it dealt with its own devastating contemporary pandemic.  Managing an international crisis carries great burdens and innumerable and often barely conceivable and potentially-dangerous downstream risks, and Helen Vettori vividly paints a scenario that leads to a horrifying dystopia.  It smacks eerily close to that which we have already witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Quite apart from being an exceedingly well-crafted tale, Black Swan Impact also contains seeds of truths we need to understand if we are to make it through what will almost certainly be future such trials.”

- David Passage, retired US Ambassador, former State Department Spokesman and National Security Council official

 

 “Vettori is a ‘Black Swan’ as a writer, penning a gripping science fiction novel that resonates with anyone interested in the effects of politics and personalities in managing a crisis.”

- Dr. Kelly E. Garrett, Director of the Emergency Management Professional Program, Emergency Management Institute

 

 "Back in 1928, when penicillin was first discovered, it was predicted infectious diseases would become a thing of the past. How wrong we were. The ever-adaptable microbes continue to confound us. Helen Vettori has penned a gripping novel of what a future human pandemic might look like and what our leaders may face as they attempt to manage the crisis inflicted by a terrifying pathogen."

- Robert G. Darling, MD, FACEP, former White House Physician, and former Director of the Aeromedical Isolation Team (AIT) for the Operational Medicine Division of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)