Cold Storage: A Novel

· HarperCollins
4.3
21 reviews
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384
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"On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment." —Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Review

For 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.

They thought it was contained. They were wrong.

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. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.

Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy.  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.  All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor.  Will that be enough to save all of humanity?

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4.3
21 reviews
Stephanie Powers
November 30, 2024
My favorite book genre is apocalyptic / post-apocalyptic. This book was okay. It took a long time for it to get going, the end was definitely better than the beginning. It was one of those books I was hoping to finish soon so I could move on to something else. Not bad enough to abandon half way through but not good enough to pull me in 100%.
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General Rainbow
August 13, 2025
I bought this book after watching the trailer for the movie. I really liked it. I kinda wish the entire town was affected or there was a sequel where it happens in a town. That being said, the fact it all takes place in a storage facility gives it this fun low stakes/ high stakes feel.
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Grey K
October 7, 2024
2nd time I've reread this book and both times ive throughly enjoyed it would love to read more biological terrors from David in the future and appearantly there's possibly a movie coming out next year!
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About the author

David Koepp is a celebrated American screenwriter who’s written more than two dozen feature films in a wide variety of genres, including the first two Jurassic Park films, Death Becomes Her, Carlito’s Way, The Paper, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, Panic Room, War of the Worlds, Angels and Demons, Inferno, and Kimi. Some of the films he’s both written and directed are Stir of Echoes, Secret Window, Ghost Town, and Premium Rush, the latter two co-written with John Kamps. Koepp is also the author of the novel Cold Storage.

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