Code Zero

Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry  
470 pages

Joe Ledger is once again confronted with a zombie epidemic of enormous proportions.  His team thought they had dealt with the zombie infection and eradicated it but someone calling herself Mother Night has been playing with them, sending texts and displaying videos for the world.  Zombies and other infections have been cropping up and Joe and his team, along with several other government agencies are scrambling to contain the problems and find out the identity of the person or persons responsible.  If they could figure out who they might be able to figure out why, which could help them put a stop to the infections.  Unfortunately, the entire team has been stymied and no one is aware that the corruption may stem from much higher up than they can imagine.  A pretty good zombie story, I liked it better than the first book, Patient Zero.  Although this is a sequel, I didn’t feel like it was necessary to have read the first book to understand this one.  Fans of horror novels or action adventure would probably like this story.

Patient Zero

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry           421 pages

Joe Ledger is planning on joining the FBI after several years as a detective when he is picked up by several agents who someone wants to ask him some questions.  The someone turns out to be a representative of the Department of Military Science.  And what he wants is to test Ledger to see if he’s right for their group.  He passes by killing a man.  The same man he thought he killed earlier that week in an operation.  Ledger is only told that he may be called on to help fight a terrorist group who, it appears, has the ability to create zombies.  This was an interesting premise and I really liked parts of the story.  There were parts that just didn’t flow very well for me though.  I will probably try the sequel still and see if I like it better because I have liked his YA material pretty well.  I think I just find some of the writing a little dry in places and scenes that should hold my attention just don’t.  Other people might like his writing style better than I do.  People who like action and horror type stories might like this book.