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

“It happened in an explosive final wave of virus replication, and in less than two hours the caterpillar was transformed into mostly virus. He understood that pretty much the same type of virus amplification melted the human brain.”
― 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