A fabulous novel from Will Jordan after the Ryan Drake series and hope to see many more such explosive machinations from the author. Cameron Becker is a former soldier and now working as a private military contractor (aka bodyguard) protecting a Russian businessman in Baghdad when the group was attacked and the Russian was captured.

No, we don't get dudes mowing down hordes of the undead, but what action here is clinical and well thought out. Will Jordan , born in Scotland in 1983, is the internationally published bestselling author of the Ryan Drake series, and he cowrote the action thriller Deadly Cargo with James Patterson.

He is best known as the author of the RYAN DRAKE series of action thrillers, and for his YouTube alter-ego, THE CRITICAL DRINKER, amassing well over a million followers and quickly becoming one of the most popular movie critics on the internet. Many thanks to Netgalley and Blackstone Publishing for the much appreciated arc which I reviewed voluntarily and honestly. While I much enjoy Will Jordan’s (aka The Critical Drinker’s) YouTube movie reviews, some of his language and jokes are a little outside my tastes.

After forming an uneasy alliance with WHO medic Lori Dalton, Becker sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack, and quickly realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger and more dangerous. I don't think there was a moment in this book where I wasn't grounded in the setting and following the action with ease and enjoyment. I wouldn’t like to see the more gruesome parts in movie form but I could see with the right adaptation, a great film as well.Dalton wants to investigate the cause of this mysterious event and despite her boss's vetoes, she drives into this village with a small contingency of medical team and army personnel. While motivations are given, they're pretty flimsy and rely heavily on coincidence to set things in motion. They and the surrounding cast don’t stand for much beyond doing what’s right in the moment and staving off Armageddon. Lori, and her team would have to find an antidote that does not seem to exist to date and save humanity. Motivation and proportionate response is an issue with the antagonist(s) in this story for me that can't be ignored.

Una expedición desaparecida en extrañas circunstancias y una conexión con el presente que puede llevar a la muerte de millones de personas. At one point I laughed because there is no way that real humans could endure the series of events and keep going with the kind of single-minded resolve Cameron and Lori show.Later in 1959, a group of nine ambitious mountaineers on an expedition to these treacherous mountains and inhospitable climate are found dead after succumbing to massive and dreadful injuries, that remains unexplained even to this day.

En su canal de Youtube, en el que a diciembre de 2022 tiene un millón y medio de seguidores, Jordan muestra su hastío por las propuestas que tienen más interés en educar que entretener, y cierta nostalgia por películas de acción como “Terminator”, “Depredador”, o “Golpe en la pequeña China”. The prologue is the retelling of The Dyatlov Pass event from 1959 on Ural Mountain where A Russian team of nine were found dead with immense and inexplicable injuries. At the same time, Lori Dalton, a WHO communicable disease medical specialist, is investigating the town. It's also very well written, that may sound like a contradiction with what I just said, but the prose is efficient, vivid and does the job. I thought myself pretty clever for guessing the antagonist’s true identity but I think now he did that on purpose so as to hide the real twist.At another time, I might have found it a more thrilling and fictional threat, but given recent events, I did not find the book to be very uplifting. Dark Harvest's opening scene hooks the reader in one fell swoop, and the action continues to culminate as the pages turn.