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Hot Zone (Abridged): A Terrifying True Story Audiobook
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The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Is there any way to stop it? This doomsday scenario confronted a biohazard SWAT team struggling in secret to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus at an Army research facility outside Washington. The Hot Zone tells the dramatic story of their dangerous race against time, along with an alarming account of how previously unknown viruses that have lived undetected in the rain forest for eons are now entering human populations. From the airlocked confines of a biosafety level 4 military lab, to an airliner over Kenya carrying a passenger dissolving into a human virus bomb, to a deserted jungle cave alive with deadly virus, THE HOT ZONE is a non-fiction thriller like no other. The Andromeda Strain was fiction---this is real!
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"Written with the layperson in mind, this is a terrifying read. How this tiny virus, if allowed to run amok, can decimate the human population, is extremely humbling. "
— Neida (4 out of 5 stars)
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“One of the most horrifying things I've ever read. What a remarkable piece of work.”
— Stephen King -
“A riveting nonfiction thriller.”
— New York Times -
“Utterly engrossing…will make your blood curdle.”
— Washington Post Book World -
“A top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall.”
— Newsweek -
“Popular science writing at its best and the year’s most infectious page-turner.”
— People -
“This work of nonfiction is more terrifying than any sci-fi nightmare.”
— USA Today -
“Riveting from page one.”
— Wired
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A #1 New York Times bestseller
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A USA Today bestseller
Hot Zone Listener Reviews
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" I think I am never going into an African bat cave!!! "
— Roberta, 5/18/2011 -
" Quite gory but very interesting none the less. "
— Rp, 5/13/2011 -
" Life is good when you don't have Ebola. "
— Tammie, 5/12/2011 -
" terrifying and fascinating. I read this book years ago and suddenly thought of it while on today. "
— Holly, 5/11/2011 -
" Ok book. Not something I would recommend to others. The reading was lower level than I thought. "
— Angela, 5/10/2011 -
" One of, if not the scariest book I've read. Because it's true. If you are a germaphobe, don't read this book! "
— Mark, 5/8/2011 -
" If you're enjoy real-life drama, this has plenty. I finished this in one sitting. "
— Roseanne, 4/28/2011 -
" Wow. This book was a lot better than I expected it to be. I hate reading books in school half of the time, but I was really drawn into this. It's definitely a scary thought, to think that something like Ebola exists, but it's a reasonable scary. Definitely recommend it! "
— Lauren, 4/27/2011 -
" I'm so so so glad the ending was boring. Read it for school. "
— Wendy, 4/25/2011 -
" WOW what a book! Read this the first semester of college and was just blown away by the truth of horrific strange viruses! "
— Valerie, 4/20/2011 -
" Read this one 17 years after it was hot - I bet it was amazing as a New Yorker piece - in the long form it fell a bit flat for me. "
— Ryan, 4/18/2011
About Richard Preston
Richard Preston is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Cobra Event and The Demon in the Freezer. A writer for the New Yorker since 1985, Preston won the American Institute of Physics Award and is the only nondoctor ever to have received the CDC’s Champion of Prevention Award. Preston attended Pomona College and recievied his PhD from Princeton University. He lives outside New York City.
About Howard McGillin
Howard McGillin is a Tony-nominated stage, screen, and television actor who is best known for his role as John Jasper in Drood and for being the world’s longest-running Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. He lives in New York.