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Gripping Reality There are many challenges, and day-to-day obstacles that may challenge ones comfort zone. Not often can you find a book that challenges that zone. Richard Preston writes a gripping novel, The Hot Zone, about the deadly Ebola virus. Through gripping detail and realism, Preston accomplishes informing the reader, and challenges the comfort zone, about the Ebola virus between 1967 and 1993. Throughout this 26-year time period, several people became infected with Ebola. Preston first introduces …

…happen. Ebola, a virus that stops for no one and holds no mercy, cannot be stopped. “Ebola had risen in these rooms, flashed its colors, fed and subsided into the forests. It will be back”(411). Despite some of the graphic content and harsh realisms, Preston writes a gripping book. Just as the scientists don’t know where Ebola derived from, the reader doesn’t know if to be repulsed or intrigued by this gripping book