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Book Review of The Cobra Event

The Cobra Event
The Cobra Event
Author: Richard Preston
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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The story begins one spring morning in New York City when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. She seems to be coming down with a cold. Hours later she is having violent seizures and has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. She is soon dead. When other gruesome deaths of a similar nature are discovered, the Centers for Disease Control on Atlanta sends a pathologist, an expert in epidemiology, to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis.