So far, only one other person is known to have died in the same way, but he was a homeless man. Preston's heroine, Alice Austen, a doctor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, realizes-in the first of several gripping autopsy scenes-that the girl's nervous system had been virtually destroyed. All the reader can do is hope she'll die quickly, but Kate Moran's body still has a few more disgusting turns to undergo, and Richard Preston-a Jacobean master of ceremonies par excellence-takes us through them in bizarre and bloody detail.Ĭlearly, whatever Kate had was a head cold with a scientific vengeance. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions and, most bizarrely, can't stop biting herself. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold.
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