They spared some expense.

91. Cold Storage – David Koepp

Pre-2020, the idea of a highly contagious, deadly organism escaping a not-so-well staffed sub-basement was not inconceivable, but nowhere near as conceivable as it is now, even though that’s not how COVID-19 started. If anything, this is another reminder to staff and pay properly when trying to maintain public safety. So, if you can put the everyday horror aside for a different kind of quickly spreading deadliness, this book is an easy read and pretty fun. The characters are from different walks of life, which is great, there’s some humor, which is very welcome in dire situations for me always, and there’s some tension. It does not surprise me that the screenwriter of Jurassic Park could create tension on a page and also remember to include humor. Especially dark humor, since he also wrote Death Becomes Her. And there is definitely horror here in the particular form of a rat king, aka the scariest parts of rats intertwining, becoming stuck, and ruining the Nutcracker and my imagination and an attempt to save the world from ruin. Eek.

Ozymandias, tailless, understands why the rat king is my nightmare fuel even when there are worse things going on in the book.