Zoo
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3.8 • 70 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES
All over the world, brutal animal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the impending violence becomes terrifyingly clear.
With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh my! In this thriller from Patterson and Ledwidge, all members of the animal kingdom, from true predators to man's former best friends, decide that humans are what's for dinner. The book's follows narrator, Jackson Oz, an environmental biologist who has lost his reputation, his university position, and nearly all of his money trying to warn the world about just such a cataclysmic disaster. Reader Jay Snyder provides Oz with a touch of breezy optimism at least early on that takes the edge off the grim slashing and that occurs in the alternating third-person descriptions of man-beast encounters. Snyder also delivers a fair amount of suspense, as Oz embarks on a desperate search for the cause of and the antidote to the sudden worldwide wilding. And while the book's conclusion may strain credulity, Snyder's Oz presents his case so positively and persuasively that it's not until the final disc plays when all the dogs and cats and rats have returned to their natural states that anyone is likely to care. A Little, Brown hardcover.
Customer Reviews
Don't rely on the critics, just try it yourself
Before purchasing this book I read the many reviews, both positive and negative. It surprised me when I read the stuffy and at times slightly arrogant reviews about this book. Just try it yourself. After all its a book of fiction that is meant to entertain
Personally I loved it, sure a little far-fetched and questionable in parts but it was fast paced, a good and topical storyline and really made me think about what we may be installed for in the future. Well done James Patterson
Zoo
Cannot believe James Patterson put his name to this. It is just not his writing.
R browning
Possibly the worst of J Ps I have read both for being unconvincing in its probability and failure to make you believe the final attitude of the human mind and disregard for life and family's book that having bought you read to the end and wonder why you bothered