Cold Storage
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- 18,99 €
Publisher Description
""On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment.""—Douglas Preston, The New York Times
For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.
Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop it.
He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards—one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Will that be enough to save all of humanity?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
You might expect the first novel from the screenwriter of Jurassic Park to pit a few hardy souls against a fantastical threat to humanity—and you’d be right. Instead of dinosaurs, author David Koepp dreams up a monstrous, constantly mutating microorganism that clashes with a trio of very imperfect heroes trying their best to save the planet. Cold Storage is ambitious, with a storyline that spans over three decades—plus a dash of hard science that keeps things disturbingly convincing. Rupert Friend’s understated narration delivers on both the novel’s dry wit and the WTF horror of it all. And Koepp delivers the tale with a truckload of suspense that’s sure to have you listening well into the night.
