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    Cold Storage: A Novel
    Cold Storage: A Novel
    Cold Storage: A Novel
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    Cold Storage: A Novel

    Written by David Koepp

    Narrated by Rupert Friend

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    ""On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment.""—Douglas Preston, The New York Times

    For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism

    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. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.

    Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy.  Only Diaz knows how to stop it.

    He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards—one an ex-con, the other a single mother.  Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again.  All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor.  Will that be enough to save all of humanity?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9780062916464
    Author

    David Koepp

    David Koepp is a celebrated American screenwriter who’s written more than two dozen feature films in a wide variety of genres, including the first two Jurassic Park films, Death Becomes Her, Carlito’s Way, The Paper, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, Panic Room, War of the Worlds, Angels and Demons, Inferno, and Kimi. Some of the films he’s both written and directed are Stir of Echoes, Secret Window, Ghost Town, and Premium Rush, the latter two co-written with John Kamps. Koepp is also the author of the novel Cold Storage. 

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    • 1/5
      Not his best work. The characters were great, but the alien fungus was a bit overplayed. Too sci-fi for me.
    • 4/5
      Good charachter portraits apart from the prologe. Maybe a little cookie cutter plot wise. But man, it produces great cookies.
    • 4/5
      Good science thriller in the vein of Micheal Crichton. The character development in the beginning was a little slow but ends up adding a lot to the overall story. Narration was excellent. This also had some humorous characters that the narrator nailed. Overall an enjoyable listen.
    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the performance. It was a nice surprise with great story and character development.
    • 4/5
      Fun listen. Science fiction with some science in it, so rare today. The characters are well-crafted and the narration is spot on. Not a lot of depth or meaning, just a good, entertaining story.
    • 1/5
      Everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything
    • 5/5
      Great characters, fun bite sized read, Awesome scary plot. I really liked the narration. Wish it was longer though. Listened to whole book in two days.
    • 2/5
      The story on this was ok, but I found the narration very poor. Maybe a better read than listen.
    • 5/5
      This book could’ve easily come off as cheesy horror, but it was completely redeemed by its vivid characters (including, and especially, the ‘funguy’itself, lol) and it’s dark witty humor! I really enjoyed it!
    • 5/5
      Really good book ! Funny but not annoying and very intense love all the POV that form one good story
    • 3/5
      Thought the concept was dope but spending chapters introducing characters,brilliantly describing or giving them a personality and not progressing the story sucks
    • 5/5
      That was a great book very interesting concept it was also really creepy and not what I exeprvted
    • 5/5
      Very good! Funny! Great characters ! Suspense. Good sensible plot with realistic people. I hope he writes more.
    • 4/5
      I was a little worried about this going in, partly because Blake Crouch had blurbed this calling the book terrifying and hilarious, partly because of the wideshot GR reviews. However, I actually had a good time with the book.

      Now, it has to be said that the book isn't actually anything special. Very reminiscent of Andromeda Strain, without being clinical and boring and painfully dated. The plot is a very straightforward and unoriginal "tough guy saves the day" story, but with the added twist of being self aware and poking a little fun at all the cliches that usually come along with that, especially considering our tough guy has recently retired and is starting to show a little ware and tear.

      I think I cracked a smile maybe once though, so me and Mr. Crouch clearly have a vastly different concept of what constitutes as hilarious.

      Now, I could go further into the paper thin relationship side streams that flowed at the edges of the story, particularly how the woman into married men is the first to die, or how another woman just calmly accepts the reveal that a potential love interest has been literally stalking her as nothing much, however, those were things that were sort of sidelined for me here, in the grand scheme of things, so I'll just let it go and enjoy the book for what it is. A fun scifi thriller movie in book form.
    • 4/5
      Cold Storage (2019) by David Koepp. December 1987 was when the Spacelab fell to Earth. Most of it went into the Indian Ocean. Bits and pieces fell other places. Some fell in Australia. Almost all of it was harmless. But this is a story of a piece that wasn’t.A science experiment that, in the fall of the lab had its contents mutate into a rudimentary form of life in the persona of a fungus. Pernicious as all hell and striving to grow, it ends up in a small outback town of a very few dozen people. Good thing too as it manages, in it’s attempts to spread itself, kills off the entire population.A couple of U.S. military experts drop in on the town, secure a sample, and leave with only one of them dying within moments of coming in contact with the stuff, despite the Haz-Mat suit she was wearing. The place if obliterated by a called in fire bombing, killing off everything within miles.Jump forward to March 2019. The surviving team members are retired. The sample is in cold storage in a hidden sub-basement of a civilian storage facility. And the place is run by a couple of knuckleheads trying to keep out of jail. Yes, this might be the end of the world, but it is semi-funny in the telling. There is a creepy stalker type guy who, when given the chance, is more a hero than he ever thought possible. The other guard on midnights is a single mom too nice for her own good. But she manages to bring out the best in people. Roberto, one of the original military types who initially took care of the problem, has to come out or retirement and fix the growing situation. Not in days but in a matter of hours before the fungus can burst out of confinement and get into the Missouri River.Light-hearted and haunted house scary, Dave Kopek’s first novel is well paced with an exciting scenario, colorful characters and a tenseness usually reserved for suspension bridge cables. While not laugh out loud, this is certainly an amusing read.
    • 4/5
      A deadly fungus slowly eats its way out of the deep mine facility where it has been stored and is set to infect the world. The only thing stopping it are three improbable humans; a single mom, an ex-con and an ex-military man with lots of experience dealing with this particular bit of nasty.I read this book in one sitting; it was fast and fun and satisfyingly thrilling. Given that right now I’m in self isolation as the world deals with the Corona virus, this probably wasn’t the best choice of books to calm my brain, but I didn’t know what it was about when I grabbed it off my TBR pile. I loved Mrs. Rooney; pictured my Nana in the role of heroine and then driving off in her car after her perfectly timed intervention. Enough said. Read it for a fun thrill.
    • 3/5
      “... there is some growing green fungus and a Rat King and an exploding deer and a dude that wants to throw up in your mouth.”The fungus wants to spread. And, it learns! And in this book, it has a point of view too! Kind of creepy to read during out current 'pandemic' of the coronavirus, but other than bodies exploding, the book itself isn't very creepy. I didn't like the characters, so I didn't care if they caught the virus or not. And the plot itself wasn't really much - virus comes from space with pieces of Skylab, virus gets contained, decades later, virus gets out. Throw in the aforementioned exploding bodies, and that's the book. Meh.
    • 2/5
      When Crichton was alive I read pretty much everything he wrote. I call them science thrillers and this book fits into that category. It’s often compared to Crichton, but it doesn’t win that contest. How could it not? It’s about fungus! I love mushrooms and have read a lot about them as a result of my passion for photographing them. The basic info at the beginning of the book is correct - they do take over insect bodies and redirect behavior in order to spread their spores. It’s crazy and wonderful, but it wasn’t enough. I basically skipped and skimmed a lot of sections, something I never did with C’s books. Here’s why - I didn’t mind the interludes with Mooney - thinking about who he was, how he’d connect with the other characters and what his role would be was fun. It reminded me of how King brought characters into the story in The Stand. Especially Trashcan man. But the other character’s musings, backstory and inner monologues drove me nuts. The gross side trip into Teacake’s teenage sex life??! Bleah, spare me. Griffin’s hateful and largely useless existence - don’t need that. We get it that he’s a drunken asshole, we don’t need his drunken asshole life in such detail. And what is with Roberto? What an arrogant dickwad. Thinks he’s the man and his shit doesn’t stink. ‘I’m so great. I’m the only one who knows anything. Good thing these morons have me to save them.’ Blah, blah, blah. It got old fast and I skipped all of his self-aggrandizing daydreams.And OMFG ease up with the anthropomorphizing already! There isn’t enough information for us to know if this fungus is from outer space or not. At least not to me, so making it basically sentient with an adaptive strategy when it gets stymied by something is ridiculous. As adaptable and weird as fungus is, it is not self-aware. It does not have a plan to infiltrate and disintegrate what it comes in contact with. It does not activate other organisms and direct them to carry out its evil intentions. Give me a break. If the writer had definitely stated that the fungus was not from here and was an alien life form, I could have bought it, but that was only implied. Not explained and certainly not verified by anyone on earth studying it. Bad narrative flow - constant long interruptions to explain tech. Paragraphs of it. Whatever forward momentum or tension that was built was completely defused with these long passages of ‘look how much research I did’.So...not recommended. Glad I got it from the Library.
    • 4/5
      In a delightful blend of speculative science in the vein of Michael Crichton and cheesy horror a la Hunter Shea, Cold Storage by David Koepp follows two unlikely heroes as they come face to face with a deadly, adaptive organism whose danger has been all but forgotten. Decades in the past, the tiny town of Kiwakurra, Australia is decimated by a mutated organism, dubbed Novus, capable of taking over hosts in order to propagate. Two American military specialists bring back a contained sample that is subsequently stored in a mountain warehouse in the deepest depths where the temperature is naturally cold year-round. The temperatures keep the organism in a state of near dormancy. The section housing the danger has been cemented off and forgotten. The warehouse was long since sold to the private sector and turned into storage units. But now those underground depths are warming up thanks to climate change, and Novus has awoken. I adored this story! I don't want to give away what the organism really is, but it just made my day. There was enough science plausibility to make this a frightening read, but it was tempered by the interactions of Teacake and Naomi, our two unwitting protagonists, with one another and with the infected. They are both working at the storage complex the night the temperature rise triggered the sensors in sub-basement four. Attempting to locate the source of the alarm, and following it down bring them face to face with Novus. Their call for help brings Roberto Diaz, one of the two military specialists who brought in the organism way back when. He and his former partner are the only ones alive who truly appreciate how dangerous Novus is. Teacake and Naomi are swiftly converted believers though! The three of them have their work cut out for them in containing and neutralising the threat. I really loved how Teacake changed and grew into himself over the course of this single traumatic night, and glad Roberto was able to in turn give Teacake a better future. Highly recommended!***Reviewed for the Tulsa Book Review.
    • 5/5
      This book contained all the elements I enjoy best: sci-fi, horror, romance, and comedy. It was a blast from beginning to end, and I loved it :). If you are looking for a cute and fun sci-fi/horror comedy with lovable and diverse characters who seem like real people, then this is the book for you. It was a very quick read, and I laughed so much. I hope Koepp continues to write novels, because I will gladly read them.(PS - There is a lot of cursing in this book, just FYI for those who consider that a deal-breaker :).)
    • 5/5
      Wow!!! Intense, gross, funny, suspenseful, and horrifying! Both Blake Crouch & Scott Smith ain't fibbing on the front and back cover. I didn't want to put this book down. This was a super lucky win from the Goodreads Giveaways but if I hadn't, it's one I would have thought, the money spent was well worth the entertainment.
    • 4/5
      Okay, so the cover of David Koepp's new novel Cold Storage pretty much telegraphs a sci-fi read. And yes, there is a terrifying fungus that has lain dormant for twenty five years that has managed to escape the containment facility it was stored in and is threatening human kind.....whew.Now, sci-fi is not my usual genre. But - Cold Storage is so much more than it's premise! It's non stop action - and its funny. I know - didn't expect that, did you? Either did I. But, what this book such a great read for me was the characters and the dialogue.The beginning of the book introduces us to the both the fungus and two 'bioterror' agents charged with containing and destroying the threat. Koepp's characters are richly fleshed out with lots and lots of detail. And as we fast forward twenty five years, we meet the two young security guards who will cross paths with the deadly fungus. Oh my gosh, I loved Teacake, the male security guard. His inner thoughts and out loud dialogues were so much fun to read. His partner Naomi is the calmer of the two and they played well off each other.Every player in the book, no matter how fleeting their time, gets that same detail. So yes, I was caught up in the page turning, non stop action for sure. But it was those characters and that detail that had me staying up late to finish this one.Koepp's debut novel makes for entertaining, addictive reading. And here's the reason why - Koepp is a noted screenwriter, having penned some films you might have seen.....Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man and Panic Room to name just a few. Yep, Cold Storage reads like a movie. And I can absolutely see this one making it to the screen.Completely far fetched, but so much fun to read.
    • 5/5
      Cold Storageby David Koepp2019Harper Collins4.5 /5.0In 1987, two from the US Nuclear Defense Agency, are sent to a remote area of Western Australia, Kiwirrkurra, where debris from a Skylab Satellite fell. They find an unknown but deadly fungus, capable of bloating a body until it burst and no one left alive. Cleaning up the mess, they preserve a sample of the fungus and bury it under a cave in the Missouri River bluffs.It's now 2019, the military has sealed the lowest level of the cave and sold the rest to a self storage facility. And the fungus has slowly found it's way out. Anyone coming near the fungus or near anyone with the fungus will become infected....but no one can survive alone.. David Koepp is best known as the screenwriter for 'Jurassic Park', has delivered a debut novel that is intriguing, terrifying and yet, plausible....excellent read.
    • 4/5
      A quick, fun read. Teacake and Naomi work as security in a storage unit where very strange things are happening. It starts with an alarm going off, which leads them deep underground in a government storage facility. Years earlier, Roberto Diaz faced off against an alarming biohazard. Now it's back!
    • 4/5
      A blend of Robin Cook and Stephen King. (I could have gone with less Stephen King.) Suspenseful. Definitely horror genre. David Koepp is the screenwriter of numerous films - "Jurassic Park", "Mission: Impossible," "Spider-Man," etc. This is his first novel and it shows with the lack of character development. But the characters are likeable – most of them. The dialogue is great, loads of action, and there are actually quite a few comical moments mixed in there.