A review by zade
The King of Plagues: A Joe Ledger Novel by Jonathan Maberry

5.0

It takes considerable talent to bring back a villain from a previous novel and yet have a completely fresh story. Maberry succeeds at this challenge in King of Plagues, which revives Sebastian Gault from Patient Zero. The threat this time is not zombies, but rather a string of attacks that appear to be terrorist in origin, but really serve to further the economic interests of the Seven Kings--a group that wears the mystique of a secret society to hide its rather more mundane goals. All the usual draws of the Joe Ledger series are here--complex characters who defy action-novel conventions, real science pushed beyond its (present-day) limits, and graphic, bloody violence that defines both the baddies and the heroes. Never boring, sometimes thought-provoking, always snarky and fun.