Joe Ledger Series
Joe Ledger, a former Baltimore detective recruited by the DMS (Department of Military Sciences), leads Echo Team to handle the freakish scientific cases that departments like Homeland Security can’t.
Countdown (The Joe Ledger Series Prequel) by Jonathan Maberry
Countdown (The Joe Ledger Series Prequel) by Jonathan Maberry
The Undead Rat’s Summary
This short story set the stage for Patient Zero with the account of Detective Joe Ledger’s involvment in a raid against a terrorist cell that pits Joe against one man who proves to be expecially difficult to kill.
“Countdown” by Jonathan Maberry is the prequel to the Joe Ledger Series.
For more information about Joe Ledger: The Missing Files, see the entry below the series list.
Patient Zero (Joe Ledger Series #1) by Jonathan Maberry
Patient Zero (Joe Ledger Series #1) by Jonathan Maberry
Publisher’s Summary
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there’s either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills . . . and there’s nothing wrong with Joe Ledger’s skills.
And that’s both a good, and a bad thing.
It’s good because he’s a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can’t handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short.
It’s bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. . . .
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry is the first book in the Joe Ledger Series.
Zero Tolerance (The Joe Ledger Series #1.1) by Jonathan Maberry
Zero Tolerance (The Joe Ledger Series #1.1) by Jonathan Maberry
The Undead Rat’s Summary
This short story ties up some loose ends from Patient Zero including depicting the fates of three of the bad guys.
“Zero Tolerance” by Jonathan Maberry is the follow-up to Patient Zero, the first book in the Joe Ledger Series.
For more information about Joe Ledger: The Missing Files, see the entry below the series list.
Material Witness (The Joe Ledger Series #1.2) by Jonathan Maberry
Material Witness (The Joe Ledger Series #1.2) by Jonathan Maberry
The Undead Rat’s Summary
A few weeks after the events of Patient Zero, Joe Ledger and Echo Team respond to a situation in Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, unaware that spooky Pine Deep has its own defenders.
“Zero Tolerance” by Jonathan Maberry occurs a few weeks after Patient Zero, the first book in the Joe Ledger Series.
For more information about Joe Ledger: The Missing Files, see the entry below the series list.
Deep, Dark (The Joe Ledger Series #1.3) by Jonathan Maberry
Deep, Dark (The Joe Ledger Series #1.3) by Jonathan Maberry
The Undead Rat’s Summary
In this short story, Joe Ledger and Echo Team have to hunt down a mysterious killer in one of America’s high tech secret scientific research installations.
“Deep, Dark” by Jonathan Maberry is the prequel to The Dragon Factory.
For more information about Joe Ledger: The Missing Files, see the entry below the series list.
The Dragon Factory (Joe Ledger Series #2) by Jonathan Maberry
The Dragon Factory (Joe Ledger Series #2) by Jonathan Maberry
Publisher’s Summary
Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists.
One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele.
Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they’ve drawn first blood.
Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.
The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry is the second book in the Joe Ledger Series.
Dog Days (The Joe Ledger Series #2.1) by Jonathan Maberry
Dog Days (The Joe Ledger Series #2.1) by Jonathan Maberry
The Undead Rat’s Summary
In this short story, Joe Ledger and his new companion — a canine named Ghost — go hunting for the assassin who killed a high ranking member of the DMS in The Dragon Factory. It’s a personal and brutal hunt this time.
“Dog Days” by Jonathan Maberry is the follow-up short story to The Dragon Factory.
For more information about Joe Ledger: The Missing Files, see the entry below the series list.
The King of Plagues (Joe Ledger Series #3) by Jonathan Maberry
The King of Plagues (Joe Ledger Series #3) by Jonathan Maberry
Publisher’s Summary
Saturday 09:11 Hours: A blast rocks a London hospital and thousands are dead or injured . . .
10:09 Hours: Joe Ledger arrives on scene to investigate.
The horror is unlike anything he has ever seen.
Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the DMS and within hours is attacked by a hit-team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak.
Soon Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences begin tearing down the veils of deception to uncover a vast and powerful secret society using weaponized versions of the Ten Plagues of Egypt to destabilize world economies and profit from the resulting chaos.
Millions will die unless Joe Ledger meets the this powerful new enemy on their own terms as he fights terror with terror.
The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry is the third book in the Joe Ledger Series.
Assassin’s Code (Joe Ledger Series #4) by Jonathan Maberry
Assassin’s Code (Joe Ledger Series #4) by Jonathan Maberry
Publisher’s Summary
In Assassin’s Code, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers from plunging the entire world into Holy War.
When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields.
These stolen WMDs will lead Joe and Echo Team into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for blood.
Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows a series of clues to find the Book of Shadows, which contains a horrifying truth that threatens to shatter his entire worldview. They say the truth will set you free . . . not this time.
The secrets of the Assassin’s Code will set the world ablaze.
Assassin’s Code by Jonathan Maberry is the fourth book in the Joe Ledger Series.
Extinction Machine (Joe Ledger Series #5) by Jonathan Maberry
Extinction Machine (Joe Ledger Series #5) by Jonathan Maberry
Publisher’s Summary
The President of the United States vanishes from the White House.
A top-secret prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a test flight. Witnesses on the ground say that it was shot down by a craft that immediately vanished at impossible speeds.
All over the world reports of UFOs are increasing at an alarming rate.
And in a remote fossil dig in China dinosaur hunters have found something that is definitely not of this earth. There are rumors of alien-human hybrids living among us.
Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences rush headlong into the heat of the world’s strangest and deadliest arms race, because the global race to recover and retro-engineer alien technologies has just hit a snag.
Someone — or something — wants that technology back.
Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry is the fifth book in the Joe Ledger Series.
Collected Short Stories
Joe Ledger: The Missing Files (The Joe Ledger Series) by Jonathan Maberry
Joe Ledger: The Missing Files (The Joe Ledger Series) by Jonathan Maberry
Publisher’s Summary
In this collection of five short stories, Jonathan Maberry fills in the blanks in his action-thriller Joe Ledger novels.
“Countdown”
In this prequel to Patient Zero, meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland Security task force . . . who’s about to get a serious promotion.
“Zero Tolerance”
“Zero Tolerance” picks up a few weeks after the close of Patient Zero. Dropping back into the world of former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger, the Department of Military Sciences, and flesh-eating zombies, fans of the series will finally get closure on a few loose ends.
“Deep, Dark”
Before former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger goes up against competing geneticists looking to continue the master-race program in The Dragon Factory, he must battle another foe using human test subjects for his sinister plans.
“Material Witness”
This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry’s chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems.
“Dog Days”
Joe Ledger returns in this tale that follows the tragic conclusion of The Dragon Factory. In the wake of a devastating personal loss, Joe Ledger and his new canine partner, Ghost, go hunting for the world’s deadliest assassin.
Joe Ledger: The Missing Files by Jonathan Maberry collects the short stories in The Joe Ledger Series.
