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
Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 08/29/1998
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 6.91h x 4.20w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9780345409973
ISBN10: 0345409973
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Medical
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 08/29/1998
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 6.91h x 4.20w x 1.14d
ISBN13: 9780345409973
ISBN10: 0345409973
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Medical
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense
About the Author
Richard Preston is the author of three nonfiction books, The Hot Zone (about the Ebola virus), American Steel (about a revolutionary steel mill), and First Light (about modern astronomy). He is a contributor to The New Yorker and has won numerous awards, including the McDermott Award in the Arts from MIT, the American Institute of Physics Award in science writing, and the Overseas Press Club of America Whitman Basso Award for best reporting in any medium on environmental issues.