![]() ![]() ![]() While Zero is completing his long-plotted plan of getting his own back on everyone, the narrative jumps forward another 20 years. An inset novella, it tells of being a middle-class boy in a prestigious university, beguiled by wealth and crippled by self-doubt. The epic climax turns out to be bathetic, though the flashback to Patient Zero’s former life as Timothy Fanning is actually rather good. ![]() Here I come.” So, we now get the showdown with the Biggest Bad, and an exemplar of how a great concept and a satisfying closure are not necessarily related. The book ended with one of our heroes, now part vampire herself, swearing vengeance on Zero: “You bastard. A Big Bad was seen off.īigger Bads were seen off in The Twelve – except that it turns out they were all infected by “Patient Zero”, a scientist who first succumbed to the virus on an expedition to cheat death, which is never a good idea. With power and technology failing, a group of plucky youngsters – a heroic one a caring one an older, grizzled one a clever one a feisty one and one that’s earmarked for an early exit – set off to save the world, having teamed up with orphan Amy, whose exposure to the virus granted her longevity without fangs. ![]() Then the inevitable unleashing happened, and the reader was catapulted 90 years into the future, where a remnant of humanity now ekes out a threadbare and perilous existence in a besieged compound. ![]()
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