The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying Right Tale Books
- ISBN13: 9780385495226
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A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic “hot” virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic tale, giving a hair-raising account of the
appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their “crashes” into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.
From the Paperback edition.Amazon.com Review
The dramatic and alarming tale of an Ebola virus outbreak in a surburban Washington, D.C. laboratory, with descriptions of frightening historical epidemics of rare and lethal viruses. More hair-raising than anything Hollywood may possibly reckon of, because it’s all right.
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Truly terrible, sensationalistic writing. Kitty Kelly does epidemiology. Laurie Garrett’s “The Appearance Plague”, also published in ‘95, was far superior journalism on the theme emerging diseases. But then again, if you like your science packaged as quick-food tidbits of intellectual ketchup and gore, this is a must-read.
Hilariously interviewed on “The Colbert Report” (11/30/05), Preston waxes poetic: “and then you start to bleed from all your orifices, not just the nether regions (…) you gotta reckon, crepe rubber skin, billiard-ball eyes, and a sleeve, or a sock, hanging out of the rectum.” As he lunged for that descriptive jugular, so pleased someone in the media still seemed interested, I was reminded of just how terrible “The Hot Zone” was. Preston supposedly has a doctorate in English, but it doesn’t show. I’d quote a choice passage from “The Hot Zone” rather than from “The Colbert Report”, but in some way my copy has gone gone, and really, the fake news interview is so much more of an apt summation of his narrative: ‘turns out, it was parody, all by the side of.
Rating: 1 / 5
One start , for some very acurate dramatic and terrorific facts about the Ebola, but very weak regarding origin of the virus, very unconvincing about possible “theories”. sound more like that ancient music of desinformation, he nearly blame another monkey for the Ebola like they did before with HIV..
Rating: 1 / 5
On of the most terrible I’ve read. Frequently dramatized unrelated segments of ibola virus outbreaks but just really poor writting makes you wonder how this stuff gets to print. Was probably written on the glide to take advantange of brief media cyclone of ibola hype. Delight in the yacht Preston.
Rating: 1 / 5
The most frieghtning thing about this book is that people judge its right! How this book found its way into the non-fiction section of my local bookstore speaks of just how simple it is for people to pass off fiction as real. This is science fiction. Just because it is based on a real event doesn’t mean that it is right. The problem is people without a solid background in the sciences don’t realize this. Even as scientist are laughing aloud at this books absurdity, the laymen is being frightened to death.
The only thing this work of science fiction does is widen the gap between the science literate and the science illiterate. Richard Preston is a fantastic author. To someone with small background in virology it would be simple to mistaken this for the Bible.
This book was written to scare the broadcast and make some money for Mr. Preston. There is nothing incorrect with that, but it should come with a disclaimer that reads: This book is not an right depiction of the Ebola virus (or it may possibly just be place on the shelf next to Star Trek and Dungons and Dragons where it belongs).
If you want to read a more right depiction of the Ebola virus read a work by a scientist in the field of virology or microbiology. There are scores of books out there. Many written by some of the top people in the field. Read these, they are not hard to find.
If your looking for an entertaining non factual account of a “killer” virus that reads well and is taken to the absurd extreme of reality, The Hot Zone is certainly what your looking for.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book wasn’t what I hoped it to be. When I first heard about the horrifying Ebola Virus, I couldn’t presume how terrifying it must be to be exposed to such a lethal strain. A supporter told me that she obtained most of her in rank from The Hot Zone. Some time went by and I forgot all about the book. Some time later, I picked up the book even as searching through Barnes and Noble for some reading material. My original interest in the virus retruned to life and I bought the book.
I was expecting a gorey and disturbing tale, and that’s what I got. Well, atleast through the first half of the book, which focuses on the history of Ebola and Marburg (a virus similar to Ebola) and the grusome outbreaks that occured in Africa. It was very detailed in parts, especially the beginning when Mr. Monet’s bowels shoot out of his rear all over the coming up room’s floor. I was very satisfied, becuase it was what I sought after to get out of this book. But it didn’t last long.
Towards the second half, the wonderful pace deteriorates. Rather talk about grusome human deaths, the book frequently focuses on the spread of a new strain of Ebola found in a monkey house out side of Washington DC. I was growing rather impatient finding that this virus wasn’t really doing anything gorey except to the monkeys. I was pretty upset when I found out that **WARNING! SPOILER*** the strain, later to be dubbed Ebola Reston, DOESN’T affect humans. Bah!
Overall, I’d say this book is only worth the first half, which is, indeed, a horrifying handle. But the dull, slow documentary style of the later half the book gives it the mediocore 3 star rating that it rightfully deserves.
Rating: 3 / 5