Cold Storage

'Gruesome, terrifying, pulse-pounding' Stephen KingShortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year Pure, unadulterated entertainment New York TimesWhen 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.Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. And 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 before it s too late.For fans of Dean Koontz, Stephen King and smart, entertaining sci-fi***Praise for Cold Storage: When the real apocalypse arrives, may it be even half as funny as this Linwood Barclay A gripping, fast-paced outbreak thriller Sci-Fi Now A chilling first novel [with] cinematic flair it s scary, and a great deal of fun Daily Mail A novel that reads like one of [Koepp s] movies: occasionally frightening, often humorous and always fast-paced Mail on Sunday The book s strengths include the Stephen King-like way humour is interwoven with horror and Koepp s enthralling conjuring of the fungus, which becomes as vivid as its human co-leads Sunday Times Culture