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Summary: An Outside the Box Insightful Account of Bioterrorism
Review: To date there have been eleven reviews of this book on Amazon, with an overall, deserved average of five stars. Unfortunately, Amazon has not provided a SEARCH INSIDE option which otherwise might allow the reader to view additional opinions (that include Richard (The Hot Zone) Preston's ".. a masterful piece of reporting ...", or a peek at the skills Dr. Cole has employed in making this a most delicious read.Cole is a gifted professional whose narrative ranks with the late Berton Roueche, the man who invented "medical detective" stories in The New Yorker over fifty years ago. Cole has the ability to accurately capture complex scientific facts, to personalize the many individual tragedies surrounding the anthrax letters, and to bring original insight over and above the plodding prose of newspaper accounts. Cole can even make an encounter with a mailbox an exciting adventure! For those people who enjoy the books by Oliver ( viz. Awakenings) Sacks of people challenged with neurological disease, or Robert S.(viz. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers) Desowitz's whimsical tales of parasitic infections, or Arlo (viz. Man and Microbes) Karlen's fascinating explorations of infectious disease history, Cole's most recent book certainly ranks with these authors. I hope that he continues to provide us with additional narratives of medical detection, given his proven scientific knowledge, demonstrated humanity, and Holmesian gift of assiduous investigation.
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