Finished reading: The Hot Zone by Richard Preston 📚
Preston has a great flare for rich visual descriptions. This is well used when evoking the sights of the African wilderness, and especially when describing the gruesome effects of Ebola. The first third of the book is compelling because it’s filled with both of these things. However the latter two-thirds is more of a medical procedural set in the US, which is much less exciting.
Preston mentions that this book began as a New Yorker piece - I wonder if that’s the better format. Maybe I’ll chase the article down. My takeaways are that Ebola is a terrifying virus, humans are fragile bags of meat, and also maybe I should check out some of Preston’s fiction.