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Newsflesh Trilogy: Deadline by Mira Grant (view source)
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And it doesn't get much more fun when a CDC worker who faked her own death turns up on his doorstep, a zombie hoard close behind her, but at least the new development gives Shaun a new purpose. Because the conspiracy that killed his sister has just got a whole lot bigger, and Shaun is determined to get to the bottom of it – or die trying, which gets more and more likely the deeper he digs.
I loved the [[Feed by Mira Grant|first instalment ]] of this zombie political thriller series, and admit to being a little worried how it could be topped. With the main character killed off, the conspiracy reaching all the way to the president, there didn't seem to be much space to progress, to heighten the threat. And at least for the first few chapters it seems that the only place the book is going is nowhere – Shaun's depressed, he hates life without Georgia, he sees no way forward, and neither does the reader. And then the CDC doctor shows up, towing a ravenous zombie horde behind her, and the pace picks up about a thousand percent, racing from one end of post-apocalyptic America to another.
The stakes are raised in a conspiracy that reaches beyond the government, in which the CDC, the WHO and other health organisations are involved in murder and germ warfare of the worst, zombie-flavoured variety. The idea that the health organisations have total power in a world that lives in fear of infection is a logical, but nice step up to the world building, which is as thoroughly imagined as ever.