![]() ![]() Quammen doesn't sensationalise his material (you could argue he doesn't need to – it's quite dreadful enough). The story is grim enough without the usually exaggerated descriptions of Ebola: sufferers crying blood and melting from the inside out. An international team of detectives works on the cases, and Quammen follows them as they uncover the traces which will lead them to the killers.Īfter an opening chapter about a horrific virus which lays low horses and humans, the Ebola virus emerges through a dark tale, with piles of dead gorillas in the forest, consumption of rotting bushmeat, sorcery and Rosicrucianism. ![]() Each chapter follows the quest to track down a new villain. ![]() They are viruses, bacteria and single-celled organisms which infect other animals, but every now and then make the jump – spill over – to our own species. David Quammen has woven a story of incredible complexity a detective story with a difference, with a host of murderers – all of them real. ![]()
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