5/19/2023 0 Comments The hot zone true storyWhat makes the chapter that ends in his death so horrifying, as King writes, is the great amount of suffering he endured, his physical changes, and how quickly he succumbed to it. Then he goes home, totally unknowing that he was carrying a very quick and lethal virus called Ebola. A Frenchman by birth, he decided one Christmas week to explore Kitum Cave, an innocent enough adventure. Richard Preston details the journey that Charles Monet makes from his home in Western Kenya where he was one of the managers of a sugar factory. and then it gets worse." And really, he's not kidding. Stephen King wrote one of the book blurbs on the back and he may have said it best: "The first chapter of "The Hot Zone" is one of the most horrifying things I've read in my whole life. Maybe because of recent events, maybe because of the writing style, but all things being equal this was one that I read in about 2 days.
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