" Even the United States of America has been forced to beg for aid. We’re being invaded and poisoned. The population is fleeing inland. I’m having to shelter in this goddamn security bunker like some kind of mole. We’ve got anarchy and looting on the streets, the military and security forces are hopelessly overstretched, and all we can offer our citizens is contaminated food supplies and drugs that don’t work. "

― Frank Schätzing , The Swarm