Kill Switch
A Joe Ledger Novel
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- €12.99
Publisher Description
What do you do when the power goes off?
Terrorists have acquired a terrible new weapon that can crash the power grid and plunge America into a new dark age. A coordinated attack is planned to shut out all lights and emergency services to ten major cities. Planes will fall, hospitals will go dark, no help will come.
And in that terrible darkness, a dreadful plague will be released. If the lights go off, nothing can stop the bioweapon from killing millions.
At the same time, the intelligence services are being torn apart from within by a plague of betrayal, murder, and suicide. Even the Department of Military Sciences is stumbling in its response to the growing threat.
Time is running out, and Joe is being hunted by a terrifying new kind of assassin. A team of remote viewers have the ability to take over any person and turn ordinary citizens into killers. Where can you turn when there’s nobody left to trust?
Joe Ledger faces his deadliest challenge as friends and allies become enemies and all of the lights begin to go out…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Capt. Joe Ledger of the Department of Military Sciences returns for his exuberant eighth adventure (after 2015's Predator One), in which he once again has to prevent a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. First, his team is sent to investigate a mysterious incident in an Antarctic research facility, where they narrowly survive an encounter with ancient, otherworldly creatures. Then they're drawn into a terrorist plot to destroy America through the use of an unspeakable mixture of science and forbidden arcane knowledge. With his enemies able to hijack brains and turn allies into traitors, Joe can't trust anyone, turning this into one of his most personal missions yet. Maberry evokes Lovecraftian elements and modern-day thriller tropes to craft a fast-paced tale that incorporates an a wide array of conspiracy theories, fringe culture motifs, and Cold War weird science into a sort of kitchen-sink affair that shouldn't work nearly as well as it does. The sheer intensity of the story takes a heavy toll on Ledger and his team, leaving it anyone's guess where Maberry will take readers next.
