Review: Another great hit from Stephen Knight.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2014
Not like any apocalyptic novel you have ever read.  Imagine a virus that turns its victims into insane laughing psychopaths who find pain inflicted on others and even themselves to be hilarious entertainment.  I remember watching the Mad Max movies when I was a kid, and the gangs of murderous laughing bikers always seemed to scare the hell out of me.This story multiplied those lunatics by the millions.The Retreat focuses on the military response to the outbreak.  Stephen Knight writes from the military's point of view like no other author I have read.  It is extremely fast paced and packed full of military slang and acronyms, as if you are actually there.In some of the reviews I have read from Knight's previous books, there have been complaints about too much military talk.  Well get over it!  Knight does an excellent job of explaining what the acronyms mean.  If you can't keep up then go join the hipsters and pick up a copy of world war z.  It will lull you to sleep.Great book Stephen, thanks for another great story.