This is not new ground, there was a mediocre book that makes most of the same allegations, but more focused on plum island called lab 257 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385040.Lab_257)

While not a great book, there were two elements I found compelling 1) a heat map of Lyme prevalence can basically be drawn with plum island at the center, 2) the us government did bio weapons tests, using ticks as a disease vector, on ways of killing an enemy’s livestock supply (and hence crippling their food supply).