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Sep 17, 2019

Cold Storage, David Koepp


Imagine the Andromeda Strain, written by Carl Hiassen and you've got Cold Storage.

1987: a mutated virus arrives back on earth in the wilds of the Australian outback, courtesy of NASA's crashed Skylab.  Pentagon bioterror expert Roberto Diaz and his commander Trini Romano are sent to contain it and they do, but not without casualties. Despite Diaz's protests scientists take a sample of the virus back to the US and place it in cold storage at absolute zero to keep it inert.
2019: Diaz is on the verge of retirement and the world has forgotten about the virus which isn't at absolute zero anymore and is busy establishing a foothold colony at what is now a storage facility in rural Kansas.

All that stands between it and global destruction are an aging Diaz, ex-con Teacake, single mother, Naomi and a second hand weapon of mass destruction with a less than reliable timer.

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