Cold Storage

Shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year

Frightening Mail on Sunday

When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction.

Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. And only Diaz knows how to stop it.

He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again . . . before its too late.

Praise for Cold Storage:

When the real apocalypse arrives, may it be even half as funny as this Linwood Barclay

Pure, unadulterated entertainment New York Times

A gripping, fast-paced outbreak thriller Sci-Fi Now

A chilling first novel [with] cinematic flair . . . its scary, and a great deal of funDaily Mail

A novel that reads like one of [Koepps] movies: occasionally frightening, often humorous and always fast-paced Mail on Sunday

The books strengths include the Stephen King-like way humour is interwoven with horror and Koepps enthralling conjuring of the fungus, which becomes as vivid as its human co-leads Sunday Times Culture