Breathless

A supernova in among science journalists * Oprah Daily *
An 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 Review *
As 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 Tribune *
Will 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 * Nature *
A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story * Walter Isaacson on Spillover *
Fascinating and terrifying, Spillover is a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all * Elizabeth Kolbert on Spillover *
A tremendous book... this gives you all you need to know and should know. Quammen's research and analysis makes sensationalism unnecessary * Sunday Times on Spillover *
Chilling... [A] brilliant, devastating book * Daily Mail on Spillover *
Travelling 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 Spillover *
David Quammen might be my favourite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane * New York Magazine on Spillover *
Come for the compelling interviews with key scientists, including Anthony Fauci; stay for the deep dive into the wild and unpredictable world of viruses * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *