Cook fires off a medical thriller that feels frighteningly plausible, following a young CDC doctor as she unravels a string of lethal Ebola-style outbreaks hitting clinics across the country. What looks like a random flare-up turns into a conspiracy threaded through hospital corridors, corporate greed, and a shadowy force willing to unleash a killer virus to protect its secrets. Cook keeps the tension clinical and razor-taut—autopsies, quarantines, political pressure, and a race against a pathogen that doesn’t wait. Sharp, urgent, and chillingly real, Outbreak is pandemic paranoia at full boil.
