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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus - David Quammen From the author of Spillover, the book that predicted the pandemic, Breathless is the story of Covid-19 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists tasked with fighting it.Bestelling author David Quammen draws on countless interviews with experts, including leading virologists, to take us inside the global race to understand SARS-CoV-2, it's ever-changing nature and capacity to kill. In doing so, he explains how new viruses emerge when we disrupt ecosystems and suggests why the coronavirus may be here to stay.By peering over the shoulders of the brilliant scientists leading the chase, Breathless uncovers the warnings from infectious diseases experts that went unheeded; and which clues are the most compelling in the hunt for the virus' origin. Review A supernova in among science journalists ― Oprah DailyAn expert eye on Covid's past and present [and] a viral howdunnit that is pacy and unafraid to educate readers ― Observer[A] tour de force...A luminous, passionate account of the defining crisis of our time - and the unprecedented international response to it. ― The New York Times Book ReviewAs close to authoritative history - from the virus's origins to vaccines and variants - as we have, told through scientists involved, and the signature ease of Quammen's prose. It reads like a real-time thriller. ― Chicago TribuneWill likely prove to be a classic in the history of science ... a masterpiece ― Stanley Prusiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine[An] engrossing, at times breathless, scientific narrative of the COVID-19 ― NatureA frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story ― Walter Isaacson on SpilloverFascinating and terrifying, Spillover is a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all ― Elizabeth Kolbert on SpilloverA tremendous book... this gives you all you need to know and should know. Quammen's research and analysis makes sensationalism unnecessary ― Sunday Times on SpilloverChilling... [A] brilliant, devastating book ― Daily Mail on SpilloverTravelling deep into the rainforest with the scientists hoping to identify the next pandemic pathogen, Quammen's book is plotted like a detective thriller ― Gaia Vince, Guardian on SpilloverDavid Quammen might be my favourite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane ― New York Magazine on Spillover About the Author David Quammen's sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck. He has written for the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic, National Geographic and Outside, among other publications, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python.