MT Review: Zoo [Hardcover]

I've finished "Zoo" by James Patterson.

Product Description

Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is James Patterson's best book ever.

Total

For 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write.

World

All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.

Destruction

With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide.

About the Author

James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977, James Patterson's books have sold more than 240 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women's Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.

Michael Ledwidge is the author of The Narrowback and Bad Connection, and the coauthor of several books with James Patterson, including the Michael Bennett series. He lives in New York City.


Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (September 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316097446
ISBN-13: 978-0316097444

My Review:

This book opens with a couple of brutal lion attacks against people (pretty gruesome stuff).  This book shows you what happens when animals are tired of being locked up in a cage, tired of being stuck in a house and eating really bad food.

The main character is Jackson a brilliant scientist who is complete smart ass.  He has hot sex-buddy who is with him even though he is known as a joke among the scientist world.  No one believes him about the animals being crazy - the ones that are still living.  He lives with a three-year old chimp named Attila who he stole from the research company he formerly worked for.  While working in Africa studying lion attacks his life is forever changed when he arrives home to find his former lover brutally murdered by Attila.

It was pretty shocking to hear what is causing all the animals to become murderous and dangerous.  It has to do with pheromones that triggers their killing instincts to attack in brutal fashion.

This book was a fast paced chilling and scary ride which will keep you up all night.
 
3/5

Thanks Hachette Book Group Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!