A review by angus_mckeogh
Crisis in the Red Zone by Richard Preston

4.0

Perhaps not as gripping as some of his other books on plagues, this one still carried the relevant gravitas to continue pushing the story forward and make the reader wonder what was going to happen next. As with a lot of modern news there’s a bit of a flash in the pan effect. Big story one day disappears days later because something else comes up. I remember a flare up of Ebola in the United States years back and some people vanishing into quarantine for treatment at the NIH; thereafter the story seemed to fade. So this book explains what happened and how it came to be, with a whole host of those who died along the way as well as emerging treatments for Ebola. Mankind just trying to stay one step ahead. Fascinating read.