The Dragon Factory: Jonathan Maberry

This is the follow up book to "Patient Zero" and follows on a couple of months from the first book and involves everybody still left from the previous book.This time the story is built around genetic terrorism and the extinction clock is ready to be turned on,this book is eeven more incredible with its story revolving around, disease, cloning, WW2 nazi experiments and individuals, genetically enhanced soldiers and animals, russian spetnaz and power plays in the white house to name a few but Joe Ledger and the guys from the DMS are around to deal with the threat to the world again..Now this book is great fun to read but in some areas it stretched my areas of belief and at times it annoyed me with the vagueness of it all(mostly with a few characters) but it is still a very good read and if you liked the original you will like this and if you didn't like the original you are definitely not going to like this either but if you have not read either I would recommend them both.They are like modern thrillers written today but with a bit of sci-fi thrown in.

Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry.

Recently finished the sequel to this book"The Dragon Factory" by Jonathan Maberry(will post it tomorrow) and also did a review of his "Zombie CSU" book recently.If you are into zombies at all you have probably read this book already but if not this is a good book about a terrorist plot to introduce a formula into the world that creates flesh eating zombies and the response by Joe Ledger(the hero) and the DMS(department of military sciences).Some of the good/bad guys are a little cliched but it is fast paced,action packed and at the end of the day very entertaining, I have read 3 books by Jonathan now and he is a good author and delivers a good read.
I will review the sequel tomorrow which follows on only a couple of months after the action in this book.

Zombie CSU Book by Jonathan Maberry.

Recently just finished this book by Jonathan Maberry, I have developed an interest in Zombies recently and like any period you want to read up on it, this book though covers not just zombies but how goverment bodies would deal with them from the point of veiw of a crime scene and police, witnesses, forensic teams, coroners, hospitals.....etc and how they respond(procedures) and the science and reality of infection.It covers interviews with real experts in the fields of medicine,science,religion,police and army and what they have to say is informative and very much not the Hollywood version of events, a couple of items stuck with me most.

1.No infection is instantaneous like 28 days later,the body will fight and it would take hours at least for a body to succumb.
2.The police/swat and army response would be far more professional than portrayed in movies and details are given of  the weaponry available to these bodies.A quote from the book.

"Zombies may not feel pain but thay are not indestructible.In the end technology will overcome savagery"

This is really a great book and I found it fascinating not just about zombies but how departments work(especially the science) in a crisis and peoples response to the crisis.It also covers zombie books, movies, comics,art but also the legal argument about killing zombies are they technically dead?(in the book is a quote which sums it up).

"I'd rather be tried by twelve than carried by six"

Highly recommended.

Zombies: A Hunter's Guide by Osprey Publishing.

Picked this up at SELWG last week and I have been looking forward to its release for a very long time and paid the £10.99 asking price.I have read a lot of books on zombies and watched a lot of movies with zombies in them and the different types of zombies(fast or slow usually) but this book describes a lot of other zombies from necromantic,voodoo and nazi zombies to atomic and viral zombies(there are more described),why some zombies eat flesh and why they do and others that just want to infect.It deals with how to identify the type of zombie you are dealing with and how to dispatch it or them(which with some types described is not easy), and zombie hunters weapons, equipment and tactics.

The book is hugely entertaining with a lot of stuff that will have you hitting the google link on your computer(I know I did) .There are mentions of Gettysburg, the LA Bust Out, Mexican drug battles, Ark of the Covenant and Operation Eklipse,Fight Clubs and numerous others.

The book is 80 pages, a lot of nice artwork and well put together and I have no problem recommending this book even if you only have a slight interest in zombies of any type, it does contradict other things I have read but I like that and this would be perfect for any gamers or to put in your zombie survival kit if the time comes and going by this book it may be sooner than you think.

I hope this brief review helps and that you get this book because  I do not think you will be disappointed

Sniper One

Finished this book a couple of days ago(my toilet book) and I know its been out a while but it was one of the best books I have read in a while and I heartily recommend it as a great read about the conflict in Iraq and the lives of the soldiers in that unit in the thick of combat.Will not bore you with the details but you will not be disappointed if you have any interest in the period.

Will have some pictures up tomorrow of my 28mm Neo Soviet forces.