Richard Preston is a writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author who has written books about infectious disease, bioterrorism, redwoods and other subjects, as well as fiction.
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The wild trees
2007
ISBN 9781400064892
The hot zone
1994
ISBN 9780679430940
The Cobra Event
1999
ISBN 9780752817125