Night Moves: Jonathan Maberry reading @ Barnes & Noble

St. Martin's Griffin, 432 pp., $14.95

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Night Moves: Jonathan Maberry reading @ Barnes & Noble

POSTED: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 9:01 PM
Filed Under: Arts | Night Moves

St. Martin's Griffin, 432 pp., $14.95

Don't know what to do tonight? Don't worry, we've got you covered.

It's no secret that here at City Paper we love the best mythological creature around: zombies. Because we love books a great deal too, Jonathan Maberry's undead tale Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel seems like something out of our wildest, most night terror-inducing dreams.

Well, OK. It's like any other zombie narrative — Joe Ledger has to keep terrorists from unleashing a bio-weapon that transforms ordinary people into zombies. But honestly, the zombie formula is pretty hard to mess up.

Plus, it's a bit like a cross between The Wire and 24: "Joe Ledger is a Baltimore detective who has just been secretly recruited to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle." Am I stretching it? Maybe. But what can I say? I'm part of the elite, zombie-biased media.


Tue., March 24, 5:30 p.m., free, Barnes & Noble, 1805 Walnut St., 215-686-1776, jonathanmaberry.com

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