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The Hot Zone Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for The Hot Zone is a great
resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
The Cave is quite large with zones that one passes through. As they approach the cave, the author realizes that everything he sees is a potential transmitter for the Marburg virus: every moth, every insect, even the stinging nettles. The trail...
The majority of The Hot Zone is written from the third-person omniscient point of view. Of course, the author is not simply composing characters' thoughts and emotions. This book recounts a true story, and Richard Preston interviewed many, many...
He took his eyes away from the microscope and looked around the table until he found a wooden stick that had a human eyelash glued to it with a droplet of nail polish. It was a device for handling the slices.