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Title: Implausible, logistically flawed, but worth finishing
Review: Curiously, I work at the CDC in Building 6, room 156, which would put me directly across from the room the two good (?) doctors from this tome inhabit. Not surprisingly, the resemblance between the two buildings is marginal.Although there are plot twists aplenty, and even given likely technological advances between now and the future setting for this novel, most of the scientific underpinnings for this book are implausible. Viewed in the context of science (or speculative) fiction, the book semi-succeeds. As a heads-up for future dire bioterroristic possibilities, it fails. Miserably.The characters are poorly developed, there are plot disconnects everywhere (e.g., even on-command military transport could not get these people where they were supposed to go in the timeframes noted).I really hoped for a lot more from this book. For a much more persuasive read, try The Eleventh Plague, by John S. Marr.
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