Patient Zero: The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 1

A great action novel. I've never been a zombie fan. It is a genre I always avoided. But after getting hooked with "The Walking Dead", and enjoying the novel "World War Z", I figured I'd try and read something else starring this ugly folks. I came across this title in one of those lists, "10 best zombie novels" or something like that, and I gave it a try.It is not only a great read within the genre, it is a great novel, period. Action scenes are amazingly well written, sometimes in a fast pace, sometimes in slow motion. Characters seem real, dialogues are good. I'm amazed I've never hear. "I Need A Hero" according to Amazon Customer. "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?" By the end of Patient Zero, Bonnie Tyler's song, "Holding Out For A Hero," was going around in my head. I wanted Joe Ledger to be real. Maberry brings this larger than life superman to the DMS (Department of Military Science) and helps them take down a group of terrorists who have developed a Bio-weapon that turns people into zombies. It's a fun thrill ride that's hard to put down. If you travel a lot you will appreciate the pure escapist quality that will make a long flight seem like a puddle-jumper an. Great book Jonathan Mayberry is one of the best I have seen in a long time. His character of Joe Ledger is iconic. Beautifully executed, Ledger is truly a brilliant man, who is also very flawed. His other characters are completely believable, especially Mr. Church, the man of many names. I doubt we will ever know what is his real name. Altogether, the DMS will have many more adventures to come. I hope they make it into a movie, with just the right cast.

The fate of the world hangs in the balance. This rapid-response group is called the Department of Military Sciences, or the DMS for short. Jonathan Maberry is the New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues, the first of a trilogy of thrillers with a supernatural bite. And that's both a good and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective who has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new task force created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. It's bad because his first mi