The Hot Zone

Preston, Richard

ISBN 10: 0785775978 ISBN 13: 9780785775973

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 1999

Synopsis

The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Is there any way to stop it?
This doomsday scenario confronted a biohazard SWAT team struggling in secret to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus at an Army research facility outside Washington. "The Hot Zone" tells the dramatic story of their dangerous race against time, along with an alarming account of how previously unknown viruses that have lived undetected in the rain forest for eons are now entering human populations.
From the airlocked confines of a biosafety level 4 military lab, to an airliner over Kenya carrying a passenger dissolving into a human virus bomb, to a deserted jungle cave alive with deadly virus, THE HOT ZONE is a non-fiction thriller like no other. "The Andromeda Strain" was fiction--- "this is real!"

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Review:

The dramatic and chilling story of an Ebola virus outbreak in a suburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood could think of, because it's all true.

Review:

" One of the most horrifying things I've ever read. What a remarkable piece of work."
--Stephen King

" Popular science writing at its best and the year's most infectious page-turner."
--"People"

" A top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall."
--"Newsweek"

"One of the most horrifying things I've ever read. What a remarkable piece of work."
--Stephen King

"Popular science writing at its best and the year's most infectious page-turner."
--People

"A top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall."
--Newsweek

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0785775978
• ISBN 13: 9780785775973
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Number of pages: 448