Read Dis: patient zero: a joe ledger, novel

 

Read Dis: patient zero: a joe ledger, novel, by Jonathan Maberry: 

Read Dis is a weekly recommendation of a story to take you away from the day to day of your day to day 

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance...” Da Back of the book

I love this series. I love it to death.

When I first read the first installment many moons ago, it played out like a canon film with a Michael Bay budget. But upon rereading this, it came off a little more dark. Yes, there is action tons of gunplay, and the showdown at the end that’s right out of the Schwarzenegger film. But  tone of this adventure is jet black. There’s a lot of real life baggage attached to the extermination of these infected zombie type creatures. 

The main characters realize they are mowing down …

 mothers

Daughters

Teachers

Neighbors

They’re not just bags of meat with Teeth there is a crushing sorrow attached to every headshot. a remorse that makes our heroes more heroic. They realize they’ll be forever Damned by their actions.

Now that said, there is a lot of fun to be had in this book. There are twist, turns, and blockbuster level set pieces. 

I can’t recommend this book enough!

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