The Cobra Event Quotes

“but no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable.”
― Richard Preston, The Cobra Event

“An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway.”
― Richard Preston, The Cobra Event

“The inside of the mouth reflected in the mirror was dotted with black blood blisters. They looked like shining ticks feeding there.”
― Richard Preston, The Cobra Event

“It looked like a Navy uniform. The U.S. Public Health Service is an unarmed branch of the U.S. military. One would not describe Alice Austen as a lonely person, or a person incapable of love, for she had many friends, and she had had her lovers, including a man who had wanted to marry her, but there always seemed to be a distance between her and the world. Like many pathologists, she was a loner by temperament, independent minded, curious about how things worked. She was the daughter of a retired chief of police in the town of Ashland, New Hampshire.”
― Richard Preston, The Cobra Event

“He leaped for a ladder and climbed it like a chimpanzee being chased by a cloud of hornets from hell, dropping his gun in the process.”
― Richard Preston, The Cobra Event