The Cobra Event » (Reprint)

Whether fiction or nonfiction, Richard Preston's books about disastrous scientific scenarios are always impeccably researched, informative, and deftly drawn. Most of all, however, they re shocking, affecting, and thoroughly engrossing -- and when Preston tries, he ll scare the living daylights out of you.

"A PAGE-TURNER . . . THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENING."
--Newsweek

"ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING."
--The New York Times Book Review

"THIS BOOK SCARED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME. . . . Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility."
--Entertainment Weekly

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. . . .

NY Times Book Review

Enormously entertaining.