#1 New York Times Bestselling Author
“Extraordinary . . . exhilarating.” Read the USA Today review of Crisis in the Red Zone
The long-awaited successor to Preston’s worldwide bestseller The Hot Zone.
Richard Preston is a bestselling author of 10 books, nonfiction and fiction, whose works reveal hidden worlds of nature and wonder.
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Nonfiction
Book 4 of the Dark Biology Series
“Shows us at our worst and at our best…This chronicle is haunting, yet not without hope.”
—Kwame Anthony Appiah
Nonfiction
Book 1 of the Dark Biology Series
Now a National Geographic TV series starring Julianna Margulies.
“The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever read in my whole life … and then it gets worse.”
—Stephen King
A Novel
Book 2 of the Dark Biology Series
“This book scared the living daylights out of me … Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility.”
—Entertainment Weekly
Nonfiction
Book 3 of the Dark Biology Series
“Extremely vivid, artful and informed. … Richard Preston has probably done more than any other writer to establish a nationwide imperative to think about infectious agents as global threats and potential weapons.”
—New York Times Book Review
A Novel by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
“A dark, edge-of-the-seat technological thriller … scary and fun.”
—Nature
Nonfiction
Risk-taking explorers climb the world’s tallest trees, the California redwoods, 35 stories tall.
“Exciting…combines the thrill of exploration with the quirkiness of those who choose it as their lives’ work.”
—The New York Times
Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science Nonfiction
Some of Preston’s most famous New Yorker pieces.
“Darkly fascinating.”
—Newsweek
Nonfiction
Considered a cult classic.
“The best book ever written about astronomers and their work.”
—Freeman Dyson
A Christmas Story
As Christmas arrives, two children in Maine discover that their house trailer is haunted by a ghost.
Nonfiction
Steel company chairman Ken Iverson and his fantastic steelmaking machine.
“American Steel is an absolute original, written at perfect pitch. It’s brilliant, spirited, generous, impossible to put down.”
—Richard Rhodes
