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The Demon in the Freezer (Random House Large Print) Hardcover – Large Print, 1 Oct. 2002

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The bard of biological weapons captures
the drama of the front lines.
-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy

The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with hot agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense.

Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the worlds most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines.

Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the governments response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill.

Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails.

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419 pages
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English
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Random House Large Print
Publication date

1 Oct. 2002
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16.26 x 2.51 x 24.23 cm
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0375431861
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978-0375431869
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Richard Preston is the author of The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and of The Cobra Event, a bioterror thriller, also a New York Times bestseller. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston won the American Institute of Physics award and is the only nondoctor ever to have received the CDCs Champion of Prevention award. He has an asteroid named after him and lives outside of New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House Large Print; Large Print edition (1 Oct. 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 419 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375431861
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375431869
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.26 x 2.51 x 24.23 cm

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Richard Preston is the bestselling author of The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, and the novel The Cobra Event. A writer for The New Yorker since 1985, Preston is the only nondoctor to have received the Centers for Disease Control's Champion of Prevention Award. He also holds an award from the American Institute of Physics. Preston lives outside of New York City.

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Paul Crerand

Reads like a thriller, but it isn't fiction

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Reads like a thriller, but it isn't fiction, couldn't put it down, quite chilling.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2012

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Richard Preston has a talent for picking a hot virus (smallpox in this case and Ebola in 'The Hot Zone' and weaving a thrilling narrative. Having been born after the smallpox eradication, it's never been a disease that concerned me... until now! I'm not sure if this is still in print (this copy was an excellent condition second hand book) but it is well worth a read. Highly recommend.

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Alexander Murray

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A good read, probably over-dramatic but this makes a very good story

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B. R. Goodlad

Book arrived on time in perfect condition. A fantastically scary read by an author ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2014

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Book arrived on time in perfect condition.
A fantastically scary read by an author who really knows his subject.

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Diane farrah

tiny tiny writing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2017

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Was a bit disappointed, not with the seller but the fact I've been looking forward to reading this book but can't as the writing is so small that even someone with 20/20 vision would struggle with reading it.

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G. Johnson

a little something worse than Ebola

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2015

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A must-read if you want to terrify yourself.

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Very apt in our current times

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2022

A fascinating book with lots of research done. Well worth a read, especially now with Monkeypox in the news. (well it's currently on pause for pride month, but it'll likely be back in a month or so).

We've seen the chaos viral research has caused in recent years.

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Linda Oskam

A nightmare explained

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2006

Richard Preston describes the nightmare of smallpox: the effects of the disease, the enormous efforts made by literally hundreds of thousands of people between 1965 and 1979 to eradicate the disease (the only human disease eradicated so far) and the potential use of the remaining virus stocks as biological weapons. And in between one gets information on anthrax as well. Reading this book raises the hairs on the back of your neck: it is so easy to make a supervirus and it was so stupid not to destroy the remaining stocks of virus when they were kept in refrigerators in only 2 laboratories (one is the USA and 1 in the USSR) in the seventies. An extremely important story told in a roller coaster fashion that grabs you and does not let go.

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