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Why I Wrote Patient Zero

     PATIENT ZERO ties together my love of classic horror, my love of thrillers, and my lifelong involvement with armed and unarmed combat.  In Joe Ledger, I was able to create a hero who has a heart, high-end skills, and enough emotional baggage to open a luggage shop.  M. J. Rose described him as a ‘hero with a heart’.  The story also showcases some of my political views.  I tend to be a bit to the left, but if it came down to saving my family or my country, I’d do whatever was necessary.  I also believe that terrorism is an ideology rather than a nationality, a view that hasn’t always been represented by my country’s international policies.

     I’m an avid reader of thrillers and horror, and I wrote PATIENT ZERO largely to please myself.  I wanted to write exactly the kind of thriller that I would buy.  I wanted complex characters, a conflicted protagonist, multi-dimensional villains, explorations of right and wrong, and lots of oddball (but frighteningly plausible) science.

     I also wanted to create a series in which I could explore a lot of different directions.  The first book has terrorists and zombies, but also hinged on a back-story of greed as the root of all evil.  The follow-up, THE DRAGON FACTORY, allowed me to explore a different kind of evil (Nazi medical experiments, Eugenics Program, and ethnic genocide), wild science (transgenics and gene therapy), as well as to deconstruct how both heroes and villains can be killers.

     It pleases me that advance reviews on PATIENT ZERO show that it appeals to a much broader audience than either thriller or horror fans.  And it appeals to both sexes.  Joe Ledger and his colleagues have become very real to me, and I think I’ve found the voice for a new kind of 21st Century thriller.
-Jonathan Maberry

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