Cold Storage by David Koepp is $1.99 at Amazon US.
Koepp is a famous screenwriter (Jurassic Park, Spider-Man) and director. His movies Trigger Effect, Secret Window and especially A Stir of Echoes are worth checking out.
This appears to be his first book. This looks to be a thriller in the Chrichton, Preston/Child vein, which isn't really my bag. But I gave it a shot.
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They thought it was contained. They were wrong.
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?
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