
They take a tiny sample for study and lay waste to the town. They discover the bodies and realize this organism will not stop unless they burn the entire area to ruin. The Pentagon receives word of a potential biochemical attack and sends operative Roberto Diaz and his partner to investigate. The life-form spreads like wildfire and kills all of the inhabitants in the town. In December 1987, an attempt to remove rust from one of the artifacts triggers a response in a dormant fungus that was inside. In Cold Storage, when Skylab falls apart in the early 1970s and crashes to Earth, some of the pieces land in a remote area of Australia.
It’s clear he has a background in screenplays because the novel has a cinematic flair to the entire tale.

Koepp’s writing gets a bit gruesome at times, but he knows how to invoke chilling scenes with memorable characters.

The story line in Cold Storage by David Koepp, the screenwriter for films including Jurassic Park and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, invokes classic horror films such as the 1982 version of The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
