Patient Zero Book Review

Martin s griffin press trade 14 95 review by nickolas cook.

Patient zero book review. Morín s new book is one that begs to be read. The novel opened with a captivating first chapter. Patient zero jonathan maberry st.

It even knocks brian keene s classic take on the undead the rising out of its top spot. Patient zero is the first book in the joe ledger series by jonathan mayberry. While the action is heated violent and furious the writing remains cool steady and low key framing all the wildness and exuberance in a calm rationality given an almost comic edge that renders it as palatable as your.

Patient zero goes beyond this and never sinks to simple gross out tactics. Joe is a fantastic character full of compassion real vulnerabilities and a deliciously dark sense of humor. There is a new case and captain johnson of new york s midtown south precinct called joey mancuso to the scene.

Starring joe ledger maberry s badass antihero part spenser part jack bauer and all superbad patient zero starts fast and nasty and doesn t. While not required i encourage readers to seek out the on line short story by jonathan maberry titled countdown. Martin s griffin trade paper 421 pages 14 95 review by sheila merritt.

He s been in the hospital for a long long time. The abduction of patient zero was an intriguing fast paced and well thought out piece. Most of these books fail.

It is more than engaging more than new and different. This is the best zombie novel i ve read to date. Joe ledger is a baltimore detective who gets recruited by a secret government agency to head up a special task force created to deal with problems that homeland security can t handle.