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Title: The Demon in the Freezer by RICHARD PRESTON ISBN: 0-345-46663-2 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (74 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Good Outweighs the Bad
Comment: The Demon in the Freezer is an excellent book about the eradication of smallpox, and the history of Soviet biowarfare. The information is presented in the context of the October 2001 Anthrax attacks. There are definitely more comprehensive books on those subjects, but Preston's strength has always been his ability to blend the personal and scientific sides of an issue.
The only reason why I cannot give this book 5 stars is because, like The Hot Zone, Preston is alarmist and sensationalist at the end. I understand that creating a feeling of fear helps the lay reader through the material, but Preston's substitution of fear for analysis, especially at the end of the book, just slightly cheapen book as a whole.
Richard Preston is an excellent author and I highly recommend this book. It is a joy to read and it is a very good introduction to smallpox and biowarfare. However, don't feel like you need to go and get vaccinated and fitted for a gas mask.
Rating: 4
Summary: Solid thriller drawn from life from The Hot Zone author
Comment: Richard Preston's The Hot Zone was one among many books that dealt with the impact of globalization and the advantage it provided to disease. While Smallpox isn't as glamourous as Ebola, it's equally as deadly and more insidious. Preston traces the story of smallpox from discovery to eradication and the looming threat it poses again. He uses the recent scare over anthrax as the springboard for his tale.
Despite its melodramatic title, Demon is as compelling as Hot Zone while also less melodramatic. There is a very real problem of biological warfare facing the world. It's roughly where the threat of nuclear war was 50 years ago; if the threat isn't contained it could easily consume a world designed as a highway for viral infection.
Preston's book combines the best elements of journalism, science and suspense novels to carve out a tale that should keep every nation of the world awake at night. We can never turn out the light in assurance that the world is a safer place than yesterday. Tomorrow's promise looms with a lining of menace in a world where anyone can create deadly biological agents and strike terror in a nation's heart.
Rating: 4
Summary: Chilling Reality
Comment: If you think what you've heard on the news about smallpox is scary, you don't want to listen to this audiobook. Richard Preston provides a very detailed description of the varieties of smallpox & anthrax - its symptoms, disfigurements, and various paths to death-in highly graphic language. Preston argues that, to believe that smallbox is not held elsewhere is nonsense. A lot of time is spent on the the anthrax attacks of 2001. He believes that smallpox, which has killed more people than any other infectious disease, is the greatest biological threat facing humanity. Preston relates the history of smallpox from 1000 B.C. to the outbreaks in the 1970s. He goes into great detail about the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate it and the lost opportunity to destroy it forever. His final chapter introduces the idea of genetically modified smallpox that might be resistant not only to vaccines, but also to acquired immunity. The author draws readers into his narrative by humanizing his facts; researchers, WHO workers, and smallpox victims relay parts of this vivid and alarming story. This isn't something that you want to listen to on a full stomach.
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Title: The Cobra Event by Richard Preston ISBN: 0345409973 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Hot Zone : A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston ISBN: 0385479565 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 20 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It by Stephen Handelman, Ken Alibek ISBN: 0385334966 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Virus Hunter : Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World by Mark Olshaker, C.J. Peters ISBN: 0385485581 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 13 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett ISBN: 0140250913 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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