Title: Lousy writing
Product review: Not a bad book- the subject matter is innately fascinating, but Preston's writing is so poor that I was constantly distracted. In his attempt to be "novelistic" (is that a word?) he loads his scenes with imagined details- what a victim was thinking for example. He is fond of repeating himself ad nauseum, expecially with oh so clever metaphors like "It was a slate wiper, a population thinner, etc."The single worst line in the book sounds like an intentional joke. "They wanted to do experiments on Ebola, but they didn't want ebola to do experiments on them." If you can explain what that line means, please let me know.
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