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Newest Review: ... inspectors just back from Iraq must come together to find the source of this infection before the perpetrator moves on to ... more
... full scale attacks.
The author gives us a brief background on the victims, enough to make them people rather than just statistics, but does not go into excessive detail bogging the story down. It has a pretty fast flow and is basically well connected. There is one section, a quick chapter on American biological weapons tests in the Pacific Ocean in 1969 which actually did take place which seems a bit out of place, and I still feel the author put this in to make a point, but it will tie in later. The blending of fictio...more
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The Cobra Event - Richard Preston: Fiction that reads like non fiction (1352 words)by - written on 21/01/13 (Very useful, 43 readings)
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Richard Preston is first and foremost a non fiction author, best known for the Hotzone, The Demon in the Freezer and Panic in Level 4. This comes across strongly in this book - and it does read in many ways like a non fiction account - if the subject matter were not so fantastic - at least with our current level of technology. Of course Preston knows far more about the current level of technology than I do as his primary field of research has always been biological warfare. Thankfully, Preston has made a deliberate choice not to share everything he knows, clearly stating he has changed the name of at least one substance, as well as few details to prevent his book being .. Read the complete review
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