Cold Storage

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'Gruesome, terrifying, pulse-pounding' Stephen King Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year 'Frightening' Mail on Sunday They thought it was contained. They were wrong. After decades underground in a forgotten sub-basement, a highly mutative organism - capable of extinction-level destruction - has found its way out. Only Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz can stop it. With the help of two unwitting security guards, he has one night to quarantine this horror, before it destroys all of humanity. 'You need to get on this right away' Stephen King 'Chilling end-of-the-world terror' Linwood Barclay 'Pure entertainment' New York Times 'A gripping, fast-paced outbreak thriller' Sci-Fi Now 'chilling' Daily Mail 'Frightening' Mail on Sunday 'Riotously entertaining' Blake Crouch

David Koepp is a celebrated American screenwriter and director best known for his work on Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Panic Room, War of the Worlds, and Mission: Impossible. His work on screen has grossed over $6 billion worldwide.

Praise for Cold Storage: 'Gruesome, terrifying, pulse-pounding, and also pretty goddamn funny in places. You need to get on this right away.' Stephen King 'Jurrassic Park screenwriter Koepp's jaunty debut ... it's Michael Crichton with laughs'Financial Times 'You'll be grinning and gagging in equal measure' SFX 'To be simultaneously terrifying and hilarious is a masterstroke few writers can pull off, but Koepp manages in this incredible fiction debut that calls to mind a beautiful hybrid of Michael Crichton and Carl Hiassen. Cold Storage is sheer thrillery goodness, and riotously entertaining' Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter 'A thrilling, funny, and unexpectedly moving joy ride' Scott Smith, New York Times bestselling author 'You might as well put your plans on ice for the next twenty-four hours, as all you'll be doing is reading this book. The very definition of 'thriller,' David Koepp's Cold Storage grabs you and shakes you and ultimately leaves you grinning' Scott Frank, Academy Award-nominated writer of Logan and Out of Sight 'Cold Storage is The Andromeda Strain on crack: chilling end-of-the-world terror infected with wicked humour. Koepp pulls it off with style. When the real apocalypse arrives, may it be even half as funny as this' Linwood Barclay, New York Times bestselling author 'An ultra-flammable combination of science-based horror, primal nightmare-level terror, and unrelenting action, cunningly tied together by indelible characters and a satisfyingly sly, knowing sense of humour' Steven Soderbergh, Academy Award-winning director of Traffic and Ocean's Eleven