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DonovanTalbot
06-10-2010, 07:30 PM
Has anyone read The Hot Zone? It is a book about the sister filoviruses (string viruses), Marburg and Ebola. Terrifying and unreal. The book reads like a medical thriller piece of fiction. Once it all sunk in upon completion, I was left with a otherworldly and surreal feeling, like coming out of a movie theatre after finishing an intense (yet gory) horror movie or thriller. The book also goes into an Ebola scare at a commercial laboratory in Reston Virginia back in 1989-1990.

If you haven't yet, I highly recommend it.

I also read The Demon In The Freezer, like the previous book Preston jumps around time wise to the research and vaccination of the Smallpox virus in the late 1970s to the Anthrax mail scare of the early 2000s and the potential bioterrorist threat of a lab engineered Superpox. Only I didn't enjoy this book nearly as much as Preston's writing is often unnecessarily superflous with details and handled the material a bit more exploitative than the previous book. Maybe Preston obviously desired to make a quick buck on the huge success of The Hot Zone. I liked it nonetheless. I recommend it.

Wilde woman
06-10-2010, 10:17 PM
I enjoy his work as well, though my favorite was his novel, The Cobra Event. It brings together the most dramatic of his research on biological weapons with his gift for storytelling.

DonovanTalbot
06-11-2010, 06:30 PM
I enjoy his work as well, though my favorite was his novel, The Cobra Event. It brings together the most dramatic of his research on biological weapons with his gift for storytelling.

I haven't read that one yet neither have I read any of his other nonfiction. But I will be sure to pick up The Cobra Event next time I am at the lib or bookstore.