Cold Storage

September 11, 8pm William Turner Gallery, Bergamot Arts Station, Santa Monica

This event is part of our Newer Voices Series featuring debut authors. Events in this series are free, but we encourage our patrons to support debut authors by purchasing tickets at $30 which include a copy of the book and two reserved seats. David Koepp is a celebrated American screenwriter and director best known for his work on Jurassic Park, SpiderMan, Panic Room, War of the Worlds, and Mission: Impossible.

For readers of Andy Weir and Noah Hawley comes an astonishing debut. Cold Storage is a wild and terrifying adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism.

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. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.

Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten subbasement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. 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. All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Will that be enough to save all of humanity?

“An ultra-flammable combination of science-based horror, primal nightmare-level terror, and unrelenting action, cunningly tied together by indelible characters and a satisfyingly sly, knowing sense of humor.” —Steven Soderbergh

Andrew Kevin Walker is screenwriter whose credits include Seven, Sleepy Hollow, Brainscan and Nerdland.