The King of Plagues: A Joe Ledger Novel

from JoshuaAtkins

The Joe Ledger series is just fun to read. Essentially a "real-world" interpretation of GI Joe, where a secret, specially equipped American military force battles the forces of super-evil in the world.

from Jarratt

Not as good as previous Joe Ledger novels, but still an exciting ride. I think what dampened my enthusiasm for this book was the whole Seven Kings idea-seven people who take on various "personas" like "fear," "lies," war," etc. They wreak havoc on the world by instigating various disasters and te...

from SonicQuack

Joe Ledger returns to fight another band of oddball villains bent on world domination/destruction, one of which is the titular King of Plagues. The significant part of the book follows multiple threads, building history of the Seven Kings organisation through flashbacks, whilst Ledger and DMS dea...

from cdhtenn2k10

I think this one is kinda wordy. Maberry isn't afraid to write a long book with lots of details about people doing this and that (see the Pinedeep trilogy - the whole thing is about 300 pages too long), and this is no exception. 448 pages that could have been about 375. Also, I think Ledger's int...

from crazybatcow

There is not nearly as much action in the first half of this novel as there was in either of the other two. The action does pick up a bit around the half way point when Joe actually gets involved in the story, but until that point, the entire story is flashbacks to the development of the 7 Kings,...