All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards-one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy.

He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.

When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. In the end, he does in the end, he makes the stakes feel real.'On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment.' -Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Reviewįor fans of The Martian, Dark Matter, and Before the Fall comes an astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity. And thankfully, Koepp also understands that having a ragtag group of heroes trying to save the world only resonates if you actually care about the characters. But Koepp’s storytelling chops keep this narrative from ever falling too far into cliche-and when he starts to, there’s also bizarre body horror aplenty to offset it. It’s a familiar scenario: the unlikely ensemble who are the world’s last hope, even if they don’t realize it. Koepp does take advantage of the structure of the novel.But aside from the novel’s blockbuster tendencies, there’s also a gleefully bleak sense of humor running below the surface of the novel, which makes for some of its most memorable scenes. He also eludes easy expectations: he does a variation on a familiar scene, in which someone is unwittingly infected by a sinister organism-but in his telling, the person infected immediately figures out what’s gone wrong, and acts accordingly. Take the zombie fungus at the center of his debut novel, Cold Storage, which just arrived. David Koepp Cold Storage: A Novel Paperback by David Koepp (Author) 2,121 ratings Editors' pick Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 20.57 56 Used from 1.49 16 New from 13.24 1 Collectible from 68. Koepp establishes a complex grid of relationships among his characters. Some of Koepps scripts tackle serious topics, but his wicked sense of humor lightens them.

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