![]() ![]() Kill Switch All power is taken down, new assassins arise, the light is gone. Predator One New age of High Tech killing machines: the battlefield is everywhere. Code Zero Worst case scenario: Zombies, mutants, plagues, vampires, and tech. Maberry’s shout-outs to popular culture’s depictions of zombies lessens the tension and feeling of doom, albeit just slightly. Extinction Machine Alien Technology: the Truth is out there. ![]() ![]() The Berserkers, monsters believed to have been wiped out, resurface and go on the attack, spreading infections that turn people into ravenous killers. 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. A top-secret prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a test flight. 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. Extinction Machine Jonathan Maberry 4.27 5,828 ratings408 reviews Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Horror (2013) The President of the United States vanishes from the White House. 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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