The Dragon Factory
ISBN:
9780575086951 (0575086955)
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy,
War,
Military,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Horror,
Action,
Suspense,
Zombies
Series: Joe Ledger (#2)
I kind of can't even handle how ridiculously pulpy this series is so far. Patient Zero pretends to a kind of scientrism, wherein the zombie outbreak our intrepid heroes race to thwart has, like, a modicum of scientific plausibility, I guess. Baltimore cop and chiseled jaw hero Joe Ledger gets tapped...
The follow up to Patient Zero is pretty solid, but I did miss the zombies. Our villain this time is a mad scientist using weaponized genetic diseases to destroy the world. He's creepy and the reveal of his identity [spoiler] he's Josef Mengele [/spoiler] is pretty good. There are multiple threads a...
A slam bang opening leads into a slow development which bogged down a bit before things really got going again, but still, a strong entry in a fun, dynamic series.
Fascinating. Disturbing. A unicorn! A dragon! Ledger is a badass. Sniffle moments.
Well here we are a little over a month past since I last read Joe Ledger, that being the first book in the series titled Patient Zero. I picked up the first book because it was highly rated on a lot of zombie fiction lists and I thought I would give it a shot, and I was so surprised at how awesome i...