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“One of those books you literally can’t put down . . . makes The Hot Zone virus—far away in a rainforest—look like no big deal.”—Detroit Free Press Five days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on. Yesterday, a teenager started having violent, uncontrollable spasms in art class. Within minutes, she too was dead. Dr. Alice Austen is a medical pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. What she knows is that the two deaths are connected. What she fears is that they are only the beginning. . . . “Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility.”—Entertainment Weekly
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The Cobra Event, Richard Preston
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- Released
- 1998
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- Title
- The Cobra Event
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Preston
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0345409973
- ISBN13
- 9780345409973
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Health & Medicine, Science Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Horror, USA, Murders, Medicine, New York, Post-apocalyptic, Terrorism, FBI, Viral Infections, Epidemic, Biological Weapons
- First published
- 1997
- Original title
- The Cobra Event
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- “One of those books you literally can’t put down . . . makes The Hot Zone virus—far away in a rainforest—look like no big deal.”—Detroit Free Press Five days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on. Yesterday, a teenager started having violent, uncontrollable spasms in art class. Within minutes, she too was dead. Dr. Alice Austen is a medical pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. What she knows is that the two deaths are connected. What she fears is that they are only the beginning. . . . “Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility.”—Entertainment Weekly