Koepp spends time building up a backstory for many of them, so when they meet their fate you feel like you have grown to know them. It is refreshing to read a character who wants to help, but whose own body fails him.ĭiaz is not the only character in the book, there are those that work or are using the remote storage facility. Koepp does not create a superhero, but an older man who can no longer do everything himself. It is great to read a character in their prime and later in their Autumn years.

He was always trained to work in the grey areas of the law so when he is asked to come back to work, he takes matters into his own hands. The main protagonist is Roberto Diaz, a Pentagon bioterror specialist who was present during the original outbreak but has retired since. A science fiction action book becomes more or an intimate horror. Rather than fill the book with government agencies and thousands of extras, Koepp keeps things low key. The concept of Cold Storage would appear to fit into the same wheelhouse, but although the idea may be huge, the execution is satisfactory simple. Koepp is best known as a screenwriter who has worked on some loud summer blockbusters. With the world heating up, the cold mountain may no longer be chilly enough to prevent the spread of this extinction level threat. However, during the same 30+ years the apparent threat has also been ignored and this military storage is now civilian storage units. For 30+ years this organism has remained almost dormant in cold storage deep within a mountain. The only survivors being two military specialists and a small sample of the organism. Unable to save the people, the US Government firebombed the place. If our governments are storing batches of these deadly organisms, what happens if they are neglected.ĭuring the 80s a mutated organism lay waste to a remote village. David Koepp is an author who is aware of the threat but shows in Cold Storage that the threat may not come from without, but within. Sound all dystopian and farfetched? This is what I was reading in the paper this very morning as super bugs are becoming increasingly prevalent and our conventional medicines are having no effect. We are only one mutation away from an organism that could wipe out humans.

Cold storage book review