The Cobra Event

Name: The Cobra Event
Author: Richard Preston

by Richard Preston

Thriller about biological terrorism and a weaponized virus threat to New York City

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Richard Preston

Richard Preston is an American journalist and writer whose nonfiction thriller The Hot Zone, about an Ebola outbreak in Virginia, sold millions of copies and created a new subgenre of the biological thriller. The Cobra Event, his debut novel, applied the same terrifying biological expertise to fiction. He has been credited with influencing real public health preparedness policy.

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The Hot ZoneNon-fiction account of the deadly Ebola virus outbreak and epidemiological investigation
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Crisis in the Red ZoneNon-fiction narrative about Ebola epidemics in Central Africa and international response