Patient Zero Book Review
Patient zero is the first book in the joe ledger series by jonathan mayberry.
Patient zero book review. An immensely entertaining package. It is more than engaging more than new and different. Praise for patient zero.
Martin s griffin press trade 14 95 review by nickolas cook. They come across as neither fish nor fowl. There is not a portion of patient zero that will not lead a reader to some new vistas to view some unseen thick green valleys that lie just beyond what is mapped or to some depth no one has ever dreamed of descending.
Zombie fiction has become one of my favourite genres and thus i now find myself reading more and more of the same affliction z. Starring joe ledger maberry s badass antihero part spenser part jack bauer and all superbad patient zero starts fast and nasty and doesn t. Patient zero jonathan maberry st.
Jonathan maberry has found a delightful voice for this adventure of joe ledger and his crew. Joe is a fantastic character full of compassion real vulnerabilities and a deliciously dark sense of humor. The story is set in southern nigeria and starts when a seal team is sent to the region to rescue a 3 rd ranger.
The recent plethora of novels that combine and fuse horror with other genres is astounding. Patient zero goes beyond this and never sinks to simple gross out tactics. Most of these books fail.
In patient zero our narrator is a little boy in the hospital. While not required i encourage readers to seek out the on line short story by jonathan maberry titled countdown. I had a fine old time reading patient zero.