Part One: The Shadow of Mount Elgon 1980: The Marburg Virus and One Unlucky Frenchmen Its subtitle-a terrifying true story-more than suits it: enthralling, fast-paced and exceptionally well-written, the book would have been an incomparable thriller even if it hadn’t been based on factual events. The first major non-fiction novel, In Cold Blood, may be dealing with gory quadruple murder, but, in terms of sheer horror, it has nothing on Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone, his 1994 account of the first emergence on US soil of one of the deadliest viruses known to men: Ebola. In addition, he has also received an award from the American Institute of Physics. Preston is the only nondoctor to have received the Centers for Disease Control’s Champion of Prevention Award. He was also chosen to edit and complete the unfinished manuscript of Micro, Richard Crichton’s final novel. He has written seven exceptional nonfiction books- First Light, American Steel, The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, The Wild Trees, Panic in Level 4, and Crisis in the Red Zone-and a well-received novel, The Cobra Event. Richard Preston is an American journalist and bestselling scientific author, a contributor to The New Yorker ever since 1985.
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