Joe Ledger Series

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there’s either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world, and there’s nothing wrong with my skills.”

Baltimore detective, Joe Ledger is assigned to a counterterrorism task force, recruited by an ultra-secret rapid response group called the Department of Military Science (DMS) to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bioweapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies.

Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry delivers a first-round knock-out punch with Patient Zero, the first in a thrilling new series featuring Joe Ledger and the DMS. Part Max Brooks, part James Rollins, Patient Zero is 100% excitement.

What they ‘re saying about Patient Zero.

Brilliant, shocking, horrifying. It puts the terror back in terrorist. 

James Rollins, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Judas Strain.

Heated, violent and furious &as palatable as your favorite flavor of ice cream &Maberry has written a memorial book. 

New York Times Bestselling Author and Horror Master, Peter Straub

High-octane excitement &A perfect blend of military thriller and science-based horror. Fans are going to eat it up! 

David Morrell, New York Times Bestselling Author of First Blood and Creepers.

Wow! From the first page of Patient Zero you know you ‘re in the hands of a master. Maberry has created a brave, bruised, wisecracking hero destined to rub shoulders with the likes of Jack Reacher and Harry Bosch &the brilliant beginning to a series destined for success.

M.J. Rose, International Bestselling Author of The Reincarnationist.

A first rate thriller with a bioterror angle that is as horrific as it is plausible &Joe Ledger rules! 

Douglas Preston, Co-Author of Cemetery Dance and The Book of the Dead

Scary, creepy and gripping &Night of the Living Dead meets Michael Crichton. 

Joe Finder, New York Times Bestselling Author of Power Play.

Download COUNTDOWN, a free prequel short.

Check out Sideshow Collectibles’ version of Patient Zero, and their complete line of zombie collectibles, THE DEAD. They also ran a pretty cool interview with me, here: Jonathan Maberry Interview

Ex-Baltimore cop turned Special Ops shooter Joe Ledger is back in action. In THE DRAGON FACTORY he and his team from the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) square off against two separate groups of corrupt scientists. The beautiful but twisted Jakoby Twins are creating transgenic monsters and genetically-enhanced mercenaries for sale to the highest bidder. Their father, who takes evil to an entirely new level, is using cutting-edge science to complete the Nazi Master Race Program.

Joe has to elude the NSA who are gunning for him, fight his way past rogue Spetsnaz teams, and stop these madmen before the Extinction Clock runs out.

And when the bloodbath claims one of his own, Joe Ledger declares total war on those people who would burn down the world in order to reshape it in their own dark image.

THE DRAGON FACTORY: A Joe Ledger Novel

by Jonathan Maberry

St. Martin’s Griffin

March 2010

$14.95