the hot zone

"Style Critique on The Hot Zone" "Lassa is a Level 4 virus from West Africa, and it was one of Peter Jahrling's favorite life forms-he thought it was fascinating and beautiful, in certain ways. He had held in his gloved hands virtually every hot agent known, except for Ebola and Marburg. When people asked him why he didn't work with them, he replied, "I don't particularly feel like dying." Richard Preston traces the known paths of …

…do you mean by that?" "I mean a virus that wipes us out." The final chapter, when he visits Kitum Cave in Africa, is also told in the 1st person. Preston uses the 1st person to make it more personal. He also uses it at the end in order to portray his feelings toward the subject. " Ebola had risen in these rooms, flashed its colors, fed, and subsided into the forest. It will be back."