Patient Zero / Jonathan Maberry / 421 pages / December Challenge Apocalyptic Literature

Can you "trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers?  It's a fundamental character flaw.  Possibly a sign of true evil."  But Mr. Church, head of DMS - Department of Military Science, is not the evil.  It is the Walkers - zombie-like beings imported into the US for terrorism and unleashed simultaneously on the citizens of Afghanistan.  Detective Joe Ledger was a part of the task force that raided the warehouse where the first Walker was found and killed by Joe.  When he reanimated, Joe killed him a second time.  Sebastian Gault, "whose company is one of the world's top suppliers of pharmaceuticals for humanitarian aid," funded the research that produced the zombies.  He is truly evil.  Has he unleashed the apocalypse?  This, in true Jonathan Maberry style, is a real page-turner from beginning to end...