

The Cobra Event
Books | Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
4.2
(176)
Richard Preston
The Cobra Event is set in motion one spring morning in New York City, when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis.The details of this story are fictional, but they are based on a scrupulously thorough inquiry into the history of biological weapons and their use by civilian and military terrorists. Richard Preston's sources include members of the FBI and the United States military, public health officials, intelligence officers in foreign governments, and scientists who have been involved in the testing of strategic bioweapons. The accounts of what they have seen and what they expect to happen are chilling.The Cobra Event is a dramatic, heart-stopping account of a very real threat, told with the skill and authority that made Preston's The Hot Zone an internationally acclaimed bestseller.
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Author
Richard Preston
Pages
448
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2007-04-10
ISBN
0345498135 9780345498137
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"This was my all time favorite book in high school (it was assigned in my Bio class). Fast paced and detailed, it was as entertaining as it was grotesquely fascinating. The characters were darling. Once a favorite, always a favorite."
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Ruby
"I love Richard Preston books and this one does not disappoint. It is a good mix of fictional story, real life science, and a strangely prophetic story on how quickly a virus can spread. Highly recommend."
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Rachel Temp
"This book was so INTENSE!....It had some gruesome aspects to it that were absolutely fascinating in the fact that one does not usually read about the procedures done in an autopsy or the detailed results of a biochemical virus as it destroys a human being. There were parts that were a bit dry that had to do with government information and such.....but for the most part this book was really good and hard to put down......the ending subway tunnels scenario was so intense I was just squirming and hoping it would end soon......WOW.....just have fun reading this book!!!"
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Tracy Walters
"Check out my full review on my Lisa Latte Booktube Channel at https://youtu.be/DuBq-HxpnA0?t=1863"
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Lisa Siefert