The book has transitioned from searching for the cause of death of the 5 total victims and finding their connection with each other to trying to track who has put the new disease out there. It went from very disgusting, gory, and kind of terrifyingly violent (so disgusting that my mom, who was a vet and used to cut up animals for a living, won't let me talk about it where she can hear) to a sort of intense military operation. They have to use forensics to track who might have found it, and also have to figure out where the bad guy will strike next. They know he genetically modified an insect virus and the common cold virus to make an illness that humans can get--it's super contagious and makes its victims turn suddenly violent and self-cannibalistic, kind of like rabies I think. Now the book is like a spy book in a way, something out of James Bond...

The first part of The Cobra Event is about the disgusting and incredibly violent death of a girl. She goes from feeling like she has a cold to having grand mal seizures, biting her face and tongue off, and bleeding everywhere. I almost threw up. But the rest of the book so far is a pretty domestic, though exciting, explanation of the background of biological weapons and the start of investigating what killed the girl and one other man. Preston made her autopsy extremely detailed, so it was like intense pig dissection again except on a fresh, unpreserved human girl. Much more gory than any war movie/book I've ever seen. But other than that, it's super intense and excitingly fast-paced. Some parts are even funny too, in between the gore. 

I chose The Cobra Event mostly because I like the picture on the front and because I didn't know what to choose. But I like Richard Preston as an author so I think I'll enjoy it.