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. Another win for Koepp!Ĭold Storage is available from Amazon, Book Depository, and other good book retailers.'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. While this isn’t a genre I normally read-mostly because I scare easy-I highly recommend Koepp’s Cold Storage for those looking for a high-octane adventure to devour. The knowledge and research add to the story in a way that will leave readers suspiciously eyeing any moss or fungus they happen on. From equipment to botany, procedures to protocols Koepp misses nothing.

But it is the science of Cold Storage that I would be remiss if I didn’t mention.

Readers will be on the edge of their seat, screaming for characters to run and peeking between their fingers as the next terror unfolds. The attention to detail Koepp utilized in developing his concepts, characters, and plot makes it terrifyingly realistic. Through multiple points of view, we follow scientists, and bystanders caught in the wrong place at the worst possible time as they are forced to work together if they hope to make it out alive. What follows is an orchestrated ensemble effort to stop the growing threat. David Koepp constructs a terrifying concept that plays out on the pages of the book with grisly realism as we watch people and animals alike become infected, and meet their gruesome end. A green fungus is spreading, one that grows, and spreads, and… thinks. There is no easing into it, nor should there be in a novel focused on catastrophic events that could wipe out mankind. From page one this book grabs ahold and refuses to let go.

Cold storage a novel