The Hot Zone
Author(s): Richard Preston
Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and the power of the Black Death, a killer so deadly it destroys 90 per cent of those it touches. Except you don't need to imagine. Such a killer exists. It is a virus and its name is Ebola. Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, true-life account of when this highly infectious virus spread from the rainforests of Africa to the suburbs of Washington, D.C in 1989. A secret SWAT team of soldiers and scientists were quickly tasked with halting the outbreak. And they did. But now, that very same virus is back. And we could be just one wrong move away from a pandemic.
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The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus.
"One of the most terrifying books I've ever read. Move over Stephen King and Michael Crichton - this really happened, within sight of the Washington Monument. And sooner or later it will happen again" -- Arthur C. Clarke "Reads like a nightmarish Stephen King thriller...It will keep you awake at night because you know that this is not a figment of the author's imagination" Today "A nightmarish scenario...dramatic...frightening" Daily Mail "The spookiest story of 1994...A terrifying premonition of what might come out of the woods" The Sunday Times "The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I've read in my entire life...And then it gets worse. What a remarkable piece of work. I devoured it in two or three sittings and have a feeling the memories will linger a long time" -- Stephen King
Richard Preston was born in 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and received a Ph.D from Princeton University. He is the author of The Hot Zone; American Steel (about the Nucor Corporation's project to build a revolutionary steel mill); and First Light (about astronomy and astronomists) which won the American Institute of Physics award in science writing. An asteroid has been named 'Preston' in honour of First Light. Preston is a lump of rock the size of lower Manhattan. It is likely some day to collide with Mars or the Earth. Richard Preston is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, and has won numerous awards, including the AAAS-Westinghouse Award and the McDermott Award in the Arts from MIT.
General Fields
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- : Transworld Publishers Limited
- : Transworld Publishers Limited
- : 0.273
- : August 2014
- : 198mm X 127mm X 25mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Richard Preston
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 614.57
- : 384
