The Hot Zone a Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
$17.25
This is an as new hardcover with dust jacket. 1994 Random House Publishing. Crisp and clean, unmarked inside, as new. Dust jacket like new with only a hint of shelf wear to back from display. Binding tight and straight as new.
The Hot Zone tells the dramatic story in depth of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. A virus that kills 9 out of 10 victims, is airborne and extremely contagious is about to burn through the suburbs of an American city. In the winter of 1989, at an Army research facility outside Washington D.C., a doomsday scenario seemed like a real possibility. A SWAT team of soldiers and scientists wearing biohazard space suits had been organized to stop the outbreak of an exotic hot virus. The grim operation went on in secret for 18 days and under dangerous conditions.
This book tells the story from a remote jungle cave festering with deadly organisms, to an airplane over Africa that is carrying a sick passenger who dissolves into a human virus bomb, to the confines of a Biosafety Level 4 military lab where scientists risk their lives studying lethal substances that could kill them quickly and horribly. The book describes situations that just yrs ago would have been taken for science fiction.
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