In an interesting twist on your standard zombie mythos, the infected in Logan’s novels aren’t actually dead. Can the intrepid reporter make amends for the problems she has caused? Setting out with the best of intentions leads her back to Scotland and right into the heart of another international crisis. The ace investigative journo is still feeling guilty over her part in the events in Apocalypse Cow. She has managed to stay alive and un-infected for the entire duration of the crisis. Ruan Peat is another teen, whose story couldn’t be more different from Geldof’s. Fortunately, his grandfather is incredibly wealthy and is willing to pay for mercenaries to help Geldof along the way. Geldof Peters is a teenager keen to return to the UK to see if he can discover any news regarding the fate of his missing mother. The characters are a who’s who of oddballs and weirdos. Will there be a human cost? Depends on how you define human, doesn’t it? Needless to say, the military have come up with one very definitive option that will put an end to all this infected nonsense quick smart. Something needs to be done, and it needs to be done soon. The world economy is suffering due to the financial drain the British crisis has placed on it. World War Moo picks up a couple of years after the events in Apocalypse Cow. Three years later, and I had finally reached the stage where I could almost look at the book fondly, and what happens? Logan’s only gone and bloody done it again. Damn the man and his bovine mayhem! Time passed and my jealousy moved on elsewhere. I quickly realised that it was far better executed than anything I could ever hope come up with. Then along comes Logan with his flashy, crowd pleasing zombie cattle. It was called Grains and was going to be about vegetarian zombies (they are scarier than you think, dammit!). Why? Well, I’ve only ever had one idea for a story of my own. Way back in 2012 I read Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan. Should they nuke the brits right off the map - men, women, children, cows and all - in the biggest genocide in history? Or should they risk global infection in a race against time to find a cure? With hungry zombies attempting to cross borders by planes, trains, boats, and any other form of transport available, it’s only a matter of time before the virus gets out.Īnd if it does, there’s only one answer. The rest of the world has a tough choice to make. All of Great Britain is infected and hungry. The epidemic that transformed Britain’s bovine population into a blood-thirsty, brain-grazing, zombie horde…err…zombie herd… is threatening to take over the globe in Michael Logan’s World War Moo.Īnd there’s not much time left to stop it. They’re still un-dead, and now the disease has spread to humans. It began with a cow that just wouldn’t die. Now if you proceed you have no-one to blame but yourself. It is entirely possible (in fact I’m pretty damn sure I can guarantee it) that there will be spoilers here if you haven’t read book one. World War Moo is a direct sequel to Apocalypse Cow.
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