Richard Preston's The Demon In The Freezer

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The Demon in The Freezer by Richard Preston is a fascinatingly gruesome book that depicts the life and death of a terrifying disease- Smallpox. Furthermore, it delves into the epic bioterror event that could occur when a disease such as smallpox, or Anthrax, comes into the wrong hands.
The book opens in October of 2001, soon after the terrorist attacks that rocked the nation on September 11th of that year. Within the first few pages, we are exposed to a tragic death by inhalation anthrax. A young man was suddenly struck down by smallpox, the first case in 23 years. And about 10 days later, a young woman in the Hart Senate Office Building opened a letter that would later be famously known as the Daschle letter- named after the man whose office
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