The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers

The Blurb On The Back:

’This is an assassination. Not yours. But an assassination none the less.’

Avery Cates, criminal king of New York, has climbed his way to the top of a heap of trouble. On his knees in the snow, with a gun to his head, Avery thinks this must finally be it. Instead, he is injected with nanotech and left confused but alive. Then everyone around him starts dying.

With every moment bringing humanity closer to extinction, Cates finds he will be either executioner or saviour of an entire world.

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The Verdict:

The sequel to THE ELECTRIC CHURCH is another fast-paced SF thriller. I enjoyed the way that Somers takes his dystopian future and makes it worse and the action scenes towards the end of the book have a neat techno twist on zombies. I’m still not convinced by Avery as a character (he’s not heroic or anti-heroic enough for me to quite believe in), supporting characters remain as ciphers and deus ex machina is still used to get Avery out of the worst scrapes. However the story did keep me turning the pages and there is a definite character arc for Avery that makes me interested in checking out the next book in this series, THE ETERNAL PRISON.

Thanks to Orbit for the free copy of this book.