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title: "Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel (Joe Ledger, 1) Mass Market Paperback – January 28, 2014"
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# Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel (Joe Ledger, 1) Mass Market Paperback – January 28, 2014

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## Customer Reviews

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    HEROES WITH HUMANITY
  

*by S***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2019*

Joe Ledger is a Baltimore cop who has been recruited by the Department of Military Science (DMS) which is a government agency that dwells in the shadows and is only answerable to the President of the United States. Their purpose is to combat threats that are beyond the scope of even the most elite US military units and law enforcement agencies.What's the threat that Ledger has been enlisted to fight against? One of the most wanted Islamic terrorists in the world, El Mujahid, has gotten his hands on a bioweapon that could make the entire human race go extinct. The bioweapon causes people to turn into zombies! In an unholy alliance, the terrorist group is being financed by Sebastian Gault, the owner of the most powerful and influential pharmaceutical company on the planet. El Mujahid is in it to strike an apocalyptic blow against America. Gault is in it to make trillions of dollars selling the cure for the zombie virus. Let's just say Mujahid and Gault don't exactly see eye to eye on the final endgame.Some zombies have been infiltrated into the US in cold storage so its up to Joe and a hastily assembled strike team to get intel about the terrorists plans.I know, aren't we about zombied out by now? Like the overinundation with vampires after Twilight or cheap mom sex after 50 Shades of Grey. The answer? Not quite. You're looking at the man who finally got around to reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy after decades of beating around the bush. I was completely horrified by the utter banality of it all and quit reading about 60% through the novel. I felt like I had wasted two months of my life. So I was ready for a light and entertaining easy read that wouldn't strain my brain cells.At first I thought I wouldn't make it through this book because our hero Joe Ledger seemed like such a basic dudebro horndog. But he began to grow on me and matured a bit. One of the suprising things about this novel is that killing zombies and killing people actually takes a toll on the good guys. This isn't the point click and shoot morality of a videogame. People are scarred when they take lives. They have to deal with mental issues because they are facing the impossibility of people rising from the dead to eat them. I really liked Maberry's realistic take on it. I feel like even in shows like The Walking Dead, the cast quickly got over the new reality of zombies walking around.The action in the book was done really well, even though Joe's team members were almost anonymous and hard to visualize. They just became names to me and never really developed their own personalities. The MAIN players were all written well though: the leader of the DMS, Gault, Mujahid, and another DMS squad leader, Grace. All these characters had their levels of mystery and really intrigued me.The novel does get a bit wacky and reads like a cross between James Bond and World War Z. Sebastian Gault is the super villain with his limitless sums of money and secret lairs with all the science fiction tech. DMS has a super computer that can comb the world for any scrap of information the department needs. But it never gets really corny. I felt like Maberry just tipped his hat to those worlds.I will definitely give the next book in the series a try.

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    The Science is Dead On!
  

*by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 24, 2023*

This was an amazing journey. Not your ordinary "Zombie" tale, but something much deeper. On some level, maybe even more disturbing becuse you realize that these "walkers" are not just flesh-eating monster, but everyday ordinary people turned victim.As a retired virlolgist, I found the science quite accurate, allowing for the fictional aspect of the story. The use of prions, instead of just viruses, was uniqe.All in all, this was a meaty horror story, wrapped in a mystery, and baked in action/adventure. I highly recommend this for anyone who likes horror, zombies, and realism.

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    Tighten Your Seatbelts Before Reading This Great New Thriller!!
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2009*

Jonathan Maberry has created a great new action/thriller character, Joe Ledger, in his novel "Patient Zero".  Ledger is a tough, intuitive Baltimore cop, a natural born leader of men who gets co-opted to lead a rapid response assault team for a secret government organization.  The Department of Military Science (DMS) is a clandestine top secret government force designed to go beyond Homeland Security efforts to protect the US from bizarre and inexplicable terrorist attacks.  The mysterious, enigmatic, and powerful Mr. Church enlists the reluctant Ledger to become a captain in his organization after watching him kill the same terrorist twice in a matter of days.  The position ultimately appeals to the patriot and the warrior who make up a big part of who Joe Ledger is.Joe and a hastily assembled team are thrust into immediate battles with the zombies (walkers) and their supporters.  A brilliant mind in the Middle East has created a bio-weapon that turns ordinary people into ravenous, crazed zombies in an effort to ostensibly  create social and financial terror in the US but perhaps with the real goal of destroying all infidels.  Joe and his team must ferret out all the zombie "cells" already here and avert a catastrophe that could destroy all human life on the American continent. While the major characters are fully fleshed by Maberry, most of the secondary players seem straight from central casting, including most of Joe's new "team".  The pacing is brutal at times although the technique of using alternate chapters to flash back and forth from the US to the Middle East to provide more back story and real time action does lead, at times, to distraction.While this is a rollicking, fast paced, violent and, often gory tale, it does call for a strong dose of suspension of disbelief from the interested reader.  There is a great deal of Michael Crichton-like scientific discussion  to explain the "prion" technology that is employed as a bio-weapon that turns people into highly infectious zombies.  For me, a little of this scientific rambling seems to go a long way...less is more...but too much becomes distracting to the suspense. Also, the human versus zombie battles seem to go on forever at times prompting the question, "Is this fight going to end before I drop the book in breathless exhaustion?"I will definitely read the next Joe Ledger novel should there be one.  I expect there will be both because he is an exciting conflicted character and because the author left one thread unresolved in an obvious indication that a sequel is in the works.  A great read both for fans of the zombie genre as well as fans of strong, likable hero-types thrust into a thrilling and suspense filled milieu.

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