He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. 6¼ x 9¼' tall.Īn astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of 'Jurassic Park': a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity. The dust jacket is unclipped ($27.99) and Fine.

The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Faint creases to spine ends and bottom corners. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean unmarred boards. Second printing with number line ending in 2. But I'd love to be blown away by what he does what this story, so I have my fingers crossed that this turns out to be the type of '90s style adult-centered thriller Hollywood doesn't often make anymore.New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, New York, 2019. Frankly, I'm surprised he's not directing this, too: he's previously directed Stir of Echoes, Secret Window, Premium Rush, and the infamous Johnny Depp vehicle Mortdecai.Ĭampbell has almost exclusively worked in TV, and on shows I've personally never heard of: things like Informer, Ashes to Ashes, In the Flesh, etc. Koepp, whose screenwriting credits also include movies as varied as Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and The Mummy, is writing the screenplay based on his own novel. Paramount bought the rights to this back in 2018, long before the coronavirus pandemic made this subject matter more topical than ever. Will that be enough to save all of humanity? All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards-one an ex-con, the other a single mother.

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