The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak

ISBN-13: 9780552171649 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 384 str.

Richard Preston

Opis

Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and the power of the Black Death, a killer so deadly it destroys 90% of those it touches. Such a killer exists - a virus called 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 in 1989. A secret SWAT team of soldiers and scientists were 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.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.