a seamless, massively effective transition from the visual medium to the literary. The book doesn’t read like a modestly beefed-up pitch for a movie it’s a rich, textured, and downright impossible-to-put-down story.” - Booklist (starred review) “A terrific thriller: ambitious, audacious, gory, scary, flamboyant, and funny. taut, mordant thriller debut.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Koepp is skilled at sharp, often humorous dialogue. “A thriller of breakneck speed, Cold Storage will be an engaging read that fans of Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter could devour in one sitting.” - Ars Technica “It has all the hallmarks of a thriller destined for Hollywood.” - Polygon “Koepp delivers a story worthy of Michael Crichton.” - Entertainment Weekly

It’s scary, and a great deal of fun.” - Associated Press “The story line in Cold Storage invokes classic horror films. Koepp recognizes that this is all pretty zany and imbues the novel with a mordant sense of humor, which gives Cold Storage a welcome vibrancy and lightness.” - USA Today Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment.” - A.J. “ writes well, he has a wicked sense of humor and his characters are so keenly, intelligently and even movingly drawn.

Will that be enough to save all of humanity? All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. 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. 'On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment.' -Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Reviewįor fans of The Martian, Dark Matter, and Before the Fall comes an astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity.

Cold storage a novel