Blood Revenge
Burdened early on by rapid-fire locale shifts and enough characters to populate a 19th century Russian novel, Thor's debut thriller follows two Chinese-American siblings out to wreak vengeance on the U.S. with the help of a friend from North Korea and a vaccine-resistant strain of the smallpox virus. After three monstrously scarred victims turn up on an oil platform off the coast of Alabama, the smallpox diagnosis immediately triggers action from the CDC, the U.S. Army, and the World Health Organization. Murder, kidnapping and high-tech terrorism add tension to the action-packed good-versus-evil faceoff, but Thor's abrupt style, along with the dizzying array of characters and locales, will keep readers confused for much of the action.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.