On Her Majesty's Behalf

September 15, 2014
This fast-paced sequel to By the Blood of Heroes (2012) is another competent horror thriller set in a fantastical version of WWI. After a kickoff set piece, hero “Madman” Burke and his squad are assigned a risky rescue mission in devastated, zombie-infested London. As they evade hordes of the new fast “shredders,” the creative, nonstop action moves swiftly from crisis to crisis, intensity building steadily, interrupted only by brief discourses on weaponry or fantastical technology. Characters from the previous installment, including villain Manfred Von Richthofen, make brief but important appearances, rewarding continuing readers of the series. Unfortunately, the imaginative core idea of German gas that creates zombies is rendered formulaic by stereotypical pulp characters and a ludicrously unlikely romantic attraction stuffed into the latter half of the book.

December 1, 2014

Nassise's follow-up to 2012's By the Blood of Heroes returns readers to an alternative World War I, a time when a new chemical weapon--corpse gas--brings the dead to horrible life. Capt. Michael Burke has a new mission: to rescue the sole surviving remnant of the British royal family before she falls into the hands of the Kaiser.

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