Cold Storage by David Koepp

Cold Storage

by David Koepp

Hardcover, 320 pages

Published September 3rd 2019 by Ecco

Goodreads synopsis:

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism

When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.

Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop it.

He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards—one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Will that be enough to save all of humanity?

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4.5 Stars

Right from the beginning when they walked out of that death scene with the 26 dead workers, you knew what would eventually occur in this book. It was no surprise. These people had all made it to the rooftops in order to grow the virus inside them.

The thing that did surprise me was the killing off of Hero, one of the investigators on the case. She just seemed like the main character lead type. In the end, the lead went to Roberto Diaz. His part in the story really didn’t come up until after he retired from the government and the containment of the dangerous virus had been breached.

This entire scenario made me wonder if things like this hadn’t already happened in the world. I can see people wanting dangerous things like this and then eventually forgetting about said thing when the excitement had worn off and leaving future generations to deal with the fall out.

The additions to the cast of Naomi and Teacake was brilliant. Their exploration of the abandoned government facility turned storage unit really made this interesting for me. It kept me going in the story and made me want to know where their relationship might go if they managed to live through the nightmare.

This was totally like the 2019 version of the Blob and that cheesy movie scared the pants off of me when I was a kid. Great stuff. This could totally be a movie in the making.

I received this as an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) in return for an honest review. I thank NetGalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this title.