![]() ![]() 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 that will rock horror-thriller fans’ worlds. ![]() In his first novel, Koepp, a deservedly renowned screenwriter ( Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, and many others), does what many screenwriters have failed to do: make a seamless, massively effective transition from the visual medium to the literary. It’s up to Roberto Diaz, a Pentagon specialist in bioterrorism, to stop the fungus from destroying the world. ![]() It’ll roll right over you, rip you apart from the inside out, turn you from a living human being to a rapidly dying breeding ground for the world’s most dangerous fungus. And, seriously, you do not want to be standing in its path. All good thrillers need a villain, and this one has a doozy-a highly adaptive fungus with an evolutionary imperative: reproduce and spread as fast as possible. This is a terrific thriller: ambitious, audacious, gory, scary, flamboyant, and funny. ![]()
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