Full of humour, with insights from animals and humans as the fungus takes over, without them realizing what is going on, Cold Storage is a study in human behaviour in many ways. This was a fast-paced novel, with tons of research about the fungus. If you ever watched Planet Earth on Netflix, you would know that Cordyceps is not a made-up fungus. With the help of two security guards, Naomi and Travis, will Roberto be able to stop the impending doom? Roberto is called back when the heat signatures from the containment facility rocket and Cordyceps novus is on the loose again. Roberto and Trini succeed in containing it and as time passed, the fungus is forgotten in its prison, and most of the people who knew about it, are gone.

With the help of Hero, a microbiologist, they learned about Cordyceps novus, a fungus that spreads at an amazingly fast rate with the sole purpose to reproduce. A little over thirty year ago, Roberto and Trini were called in to investigate the strange activities in the an Australian small town. All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Will that be enough to save all of humanity?Ī fungus with a mission, competing against humans, who know how dangerous it is. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards-one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy.

He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.

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. Let’s take a quick look at the synopsis and dive into my thoughts about the book. Author David Koepp, if you did not know already, is also a celebrated screenwriter and director, whose noteworthy projects include Jurassic Park and Panic Room. It is a fast-paced novel about a biological disaster waiting to happen. They were either gifted to me or recommended to me or they made their way to me somehow. Some of the best books that I have read have often been ones that I did not choose.

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