![]() ![]() Both viruses cause the body to "crash and bleed," as Preston puts it, a disgusting and torturous way to the whose details I lack the stomach to elaborate here. The Hot Zone tells the story of the Ebola and Marburg viruses, two uniquely horrible diseases that had several deadly outbreaks in Africa over the past two decades. As it is, he has merely written a tremendously gripping, superbly reported narrative just a notch or two below those classics. With a little careful editing, Preston could have produced a work of nonfiction on the order of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. But even if Random House hadn't tarted up Preston's expanded version of his New Yorker piece about a deadly jungle virus run amok in suburban Washington, this book would have been a runaway hit. You are cleared to enter." reads some fake computer type that precedes the first chapter), cheesy jacket blurbs from Robert Redford and Stephen King, and occasionally hyperbolic prose, The Hot Zone seems targeted like a cruise missile for the best-seller list. Packaged as a nonfiction knockoff of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda strain, with hokey graphics ("Processing. ![]() MLA style: "The Hot Zone." The Free Library. ![]()
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