The Demon in the Freezer

	Author(s): Preston, Richard Publisher: Random House Format: Hardcover List Price:  $24.95
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Overview:
Richard Preston delivers a masterfully crafted true-life medical thriller about the return of smallpox - this time in an even deadlier, genetically engineered form. Eradicated in 1979, smallpox is back - and has crept onto the international black market, where it is prized as the mother of all biological weapons. The Demon in the Freezer is the story of a crusade by three doctors - two men at the height of their careers and a feisty young woman, an upstart twenty-eight-year-old infectious disease expert - to find the mastermind of the Anthrax attacks in October 2001, and to stay a step ahead of the bioterrorists by anticipating their next move. The problem is, they can't seem to agree on how it should be done. And when you're working in the hot zone, conflict comes at a lethal price.

Category: Infectious Diseases