The Cobra Event
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Written By: Richard Preston
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345409973
ISBN: 0345409973
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 1998-08-29
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 1998-08-29
Studio: Ballantine Books
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Editorial Reviews for The Cobra Event
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"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. . . .
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Summary: Great fiction about a possible viral attack in the US
Comment: He's written great nonfiction about Anthrax and smallpox. Very scary and fascinating. This is a what if book that will frighten you while entertaining you. I loved it.
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Summary: A crazy read..
Comment: I found this book after I read Preston's other book, 'The Hot Zone.' I didn't even get to finish it because it didn't hold my interest halfway into the book for some reason that I can't even remember. The beginning is the only thing that I remember. Talk about the gross-factor!
Anyways, I decided to give Preston another try when I went to the library. Wow, it was a good read. It was fast paced and it gave me the chills. I couldn't stop thinking about how real it felt when I was reading. I had a couple nightmares, as embarrassing as that sounds. So overall, it was a good read.
More into detail of the book, I couldn't relate to the characters. I also didn't really know much about them. I love characterization and there wasn't much of it in this book. However, the action and plot of the book made up for it I guess! It has gore and it's so descriptive that I would have barfed if my stomach was weak. As I said, the plot seems so real that it can scare you.
It's a fast read. It didn't take me too long to finish.
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Summary: A really good biological thriller...
Comment: I read this right after "Quantico" (Greg Bear) and this ending satisfied because it was realistic, no Deus Ex, the nasty is still with us (as it would be in the real world). Mr. Preston picked an interesting real world genetic disorder, stretched it into something that could be manufactured and made communicable, coupled it to an enigmatic bad guy (the good guys were pretty stock) and spun it into a bloody good story that was hard to put down.
I'll keep this one to read again.
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Summary: Terrifying
Comment: Chemical and biological warfare is the scariest form of war to me since it is essentially invisible.
While this novel is fiction, it reads as a horrifying alternate reality. Mr.Preston has demonstrated his vast knowledge base on these topics with his nonfiction works.
The villain in this novel is too easy to imagine and this novel resonates with me on a regular basis as the true violent scenario to fear.
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Summary: Guilty pleasure for science geeks
Comment: This book is the result of mixing Silence of the Lambs and The Andromeda Strain.
It's a nice technothriller, but the writing has some serious rough spots. Given that it's Preston's first fiction book those are somewhat forgivable.
It's a guilty pleasure I'd recommend to science geek for some light, very light, reading...
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More Information on The Cobra Event
The Cobra Event - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cobra Event is a 1998 bio-thriller novel by Richard Preston describing a terror attempt on the United States by a man known only as "Archimedes.
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