Like Crichton, who's an obvious influence, Preston knows how to explode from the gate: his opening, in which a schoolgirl attacked by an unknown virus spasms and bleeds and eats her own lip, will plunge readers into shock. Indeed, where that bestselling report on natural viruses run amok employed fiction techniques to dramatic effect, this exciting tale of bioengineered viruses on the rampage leans on the sort of cool, fact-packed prose usually associated with nonfiction-or with the sort of cautionary science thriller aced by Michael Crichton. ""The nonfiction roots of this book run deep,"" writes Preston while introducing his much anticipated first novel, a kind of fictional sequel to The Hot Zone.
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