“The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely… and as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.” These words, spoken by Nathan Wolfe, director of Global Viral, are naturally applicable to one of Richard Preston’s most famous novels. In The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, the author uses a variety of literary devices to create an atmosphere that is horrifyingly descriptive, but at times simply immersive. Preston is clearly apt at using imagery and similes so that the reader is forced to visualize a particularly gory and disturbing scene. The scene in which Doctor Musoke, a popular medical practitioner at Nairobi
