The King of Plagues

A bomb levels the Royal London Hospital, leaving thousands dead or injured. Joe Ledger, who had unofficially retired from the Department of Military Sciences (DMS), reaches the scene and sees something worse than anything he has faced before.

Grief and rage bring him back into the DMS. Within hours, a team of assassins comes after him, and the attack proves to be only the opening move.

Next, someone breaches a viral research facility in Scotland, and a bomb goes off at the Bombay Stock Exchange. Ledger is then sent on a suicide mission into an Ebola outbreak. One organisation stands behind all of it: the Seven Kings, a secret society with seemingly unlimited resources.

The Seven Kings turn the Ten Plagues of Egypt into weapons, using them to shake the world's economies and make money from the resulting chaos.

This is the third Joe Ledger novel, and it mixes techno-thriller, action and horror at a very fast pace. It is mostly self-contained, so newcomers can start here. Unless Ledger and the DMS confront the Seven Kings on the society's own terms, millions will die.