{"id":38949,"date":"2025-07-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38949"},"modified":"2025-07-05T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:46:57","slug":"38949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38949","title":{"rendered":"BURN TO SHINE: A JOE LEDGER AND ROGUE TEAM INTERNATIONAL NOVEL by Jonathan Maberry \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BURN TO SHINE<\/a> by Jonathan Maberry<\/p>\n

First sentence…<\/p>\n

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“You’re going to want to take that call,” I said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joe Ledger is an ex-Army Ranger and ex-Baltimore police detective.\u00a0 Ledger was recruited into the United States’ several-levels-above-top-secret Department of Military Sciences.\u00a0 This organization dealt with threats to the US,.\u00a0 Most of their missions involved stopping terrorists using advanced technology to create bio-weapons.\u00a0 Some of Ledger’s assignments ventured into the realm of the supernatural… and while Ledger might not believe in that “stuff” — his team had to deal with it.\u00a0 Ultimately because of threats to the world, Rogue Team International was formed.<\/p>\n

The man calls himself Mr. October.\u00a0 He’s been known by other names.\u00a0 Mr. October is fine… for now.\u00a0 Mr. October has plans to change the world.\u00a0 Chaos will reign.<\/p>\n

She should be dead. She was dead.\u00a0 She remembers that much.\u00a0 Slowly her memory is coming back.\u00a0 Mr. October calls her Mother Mary.\u00a0 Mother Mary’s IQ is on a genius level scale that is off the charts.\u00a0 As intelligent as she is, Mary is just as insane.\u00a0 She wants to see the world burn.\u00a0 It has to burn to shine.<\/p>\n

Mr. October has the financial resources to get Mary whatever she needs to make a virus strain more potent than ever seen before.\u00a0 The virus will infect people across the country.\u00a0 The infected will become “bombs” spreading the plague.\u00a0 \u00a0The US… and then the world will fall.<\/p>\n

Joe Ledger and his team are sent to Pine Deep.\u00a0 From past experience Ledger knows to count on strange things.\u00a0 Groups of heavily armed men, gearing up for battle, usually indicate a militia.\u00a0 The “soldiers” look like skinheads.\u00a0 But the mission they’re preparing for is much more sinister.\u00a0 And even the “soldiers” have no idea how they’re being used.<\/p>\n

It’s been said it’s impossible to stop an assassin willing to die.\u00a0 How do you stop an army of those assassins?<\/p>\n

Joe Ledger and his team are going to find out.\u00a0 Or die trying.<\/p>\n

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Fans of Jonathan Maberry’s Pine Deep series\/characters will get a kick out of their inclusion in BURN TO SHINE.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Maberry has another winner!\u00a0 I love the Joe Ledger tales.<\/p>\n

Rating:<\/strong>
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