![]() So far, only one other person is known to have died in the same way, but he was a homeless man. Preston's heroine, Alice Austen, a doctor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, realizes-in the first of several gripping autopsy scenes-that the girl's nervous system had been virtually destroyed. All the reader can do is hope she'll die quickly, but Kate Moran's body still has a few more disgusting turns to undergo, and Richard Preston-a Jacobean master of ceremonies par excellence-takes us through them in bizarre and bloody detail.Ĭlearly, whatever Kate had was a head cold with a scientific vengeance. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions and, most bizarrely, can't stop biting herself. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. ![]() ![]() In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. ![]()
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