Re-energised, it has found its way out of its prison and is about to embark on a lethal feeding frenzy.Ĭold Storage is a joy ride that is both thrilling and hilarious, but requires much suspension of belief. The two special agents have retired, the new chief of their Pentagon unit has been replaced with a sceptic, while climate change has caused a rise in underground temperatures, fuelling the growth of the hitherto inert fungus. A small sample of it is brought back to the United States and buried in a military bunker deep underground to inhibit its growth.įast forward to the present day for the second act: The world finds itself again on the verge of extinction.įor one, the Defence Threat Reduction Agency facility has been decommissioned. The fictional fungus - the Cordyceps novus - is nearly sentient and has acute awareness of its environs.
The first, set in December 1987, involves Pentagon bio-terror operatives Roberto Diaz and Trini Romano on a top-secret operation to Western Australia, to contain a super-infectious new species of parasitic fungus that has killed everyone in a remote town.
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