Jonathan Maberry’s The Dragon Factory continues the saga of Joe Ledger, Mayberry’s featured protagonist and a team leader of the Department of Military Sciences (DMS), the United States’ ultra-clandestine team of special operatives who work with a blank check and near-total autonomy from the rules and regulations of modern warfare to keep the country (and the world) safe from its biggest threats.
With his first Legder novel, Patient Zero, Maberry started out with a bang, putting the DMS up against ‘walkers’, a virally-animated version of the walking dead. The Dragon Factory ups the ante with competing groups of geneticists, one group churning out genetically enhanced mercenaries and genetically manipulated monsters, and the other continuing the Nazi’s quest to further the master race. Both groups are at each other’s throats, and both want to eliminate the DMS.
Fast-paced, violent and suspenseful, Mayberry writes in a manner that grabs readers by the wrist and drags them through his vivid imagination, and his characters are likable, often relatable characters that are easy to grow emotionally invested in, leading to long nights of white-knuckle reading.
Don’t plan on putting The Dragon Factory down until you’ve finished it.
Posted on March 29, 2010
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