![]() ![]() Maberry’s shout-outs to popular culture’s depictions of zombies lessens the tension and feeling of doom, albeit just slightly. ![]() This entry in the series shares much in common with Men in Black, X-Files, Fringe, and even the video game Crysis. It stays true to form, offering readers bone-crunching action, snarky dialogue, and twisted revelations. The Berserkers, monsters believed to have been wiped out, resurface and go on the attack, spreading infections that turn people into ravenous killers. EXTINCTION MACHINE is a Joe Ledger Novel through and through. Ledger and his team take what appear to be successful steps to thwart the threat posed by these hackers, but his optimism proves to be ill-founded. Joe Ledger Books in Order (10 Book Series) Patient Zero The Dragon Factory The King of Plagues Assassins Code Extinction Machine Code Zero Predator One. A copy of VaultBreaker, “the absolute bleeding edge of cybersecurity technology,” designed to keep America’s foes from turning off its energy grid, has fallen into the wrong hands-specifically, those of an Asian woman who calls herself Mother Night, the liaison to a team of cyberhackers from China and other unfriendly foreign countries. Bestseller Maberry’s sequel to 2009’s Patient Zero, his sixth starring Joe Ledger of the ultrasecret Department of Military Science (after 2013’s Extinction Machine), does a good job of making its variation on the zombie menace plausible. ![]()
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