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The JOE LEDGER serial (novels and short stories, so far) in chronological gild. (including the Expressionless OF Nighttime, ROT & RUIN, Cleaved LANDS and V-WARS serial)

COUNTDOWN

Short story teaser: "I didn't plan to kill anyone. I wasn't totally against the idea, either. Sometimes things just fall that mode, and either yous whorl with it or it rolls over you. Letting the bad guys win isn't how I curlicue." Run into Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland task force… who's virtually to get a serious promotion.

** This story is included in the brusk story collection JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, available in print from JournalStone and on sound by Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

PATIENT ZERO

NOVEL #ane of the ten-volume Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Armed forces Sciences) Series

Published in 2009

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there'south either something wrong with your globe or something wrong with your skills... and at that place's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger'due south skills. And that's both a adept, and a bad thing. It's expert considering 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 tin can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Armed services Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his outset mission is to assist stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that tin can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the earth hangs in the residuum

Bachelor in merchandise paperback and eBook from St. Martin's Griffin and on sound from Blackstone

ISBN-10: 0312382855 / ISBN-13: 978-0312382858

ZERO TOLERANCE

Brusk Story

This sequel to PATIENT ZERO brings Joe Ledger back into action, hunting for zombies in the deadly mountains of Afghanistan. .

Available in print in THE LIVING DEAD ii edited by John Joseph Adams

** This story is included in the short story drove JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, available in impress from JournalStone and on audio by Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

DEEP, DARK

Short Story

In an underground bioweapons lab a team of scientists working to develop super soldiers instead create something that is far deadlier and infinitely stranger. Joe Ledger and Echo Team must hunt –and exist hunted—deep down in the dark.

** This story is included in the short story collection JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, bachelor in impress from JournalStone and on audio past Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

Fabric WITNESS

Short Story

A stand-alone curt story that takes place in the early days of Joe Ledger'south service in the Department of Military Sciences, a peak surreptitious sectionalisation of Homeland Security. Joe Ledger and the DMS must protect a Pine Deep resident spook and author who is in over his head with the wrong people and may know more than he is letting on.

** This story is included in the short story drove JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, available in impress from JournalStone and on audio by Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

THE DRAGON FACTORY

NOVEL #2 of the ten-book Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Armed services Sciences) Serial

Published in 2010

Joe and the DMS 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 Chief Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they've drawn beginning blood. Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger equally he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.

Available in trade paperback and eBook from St. Martin's Griffin and on audio from Blackstone

ISBN-10: 0312382499 / ISBN-13: 978-0312382490

Canis familiaris DAYS

Brusque Story

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'southward deadliest assassin.

Available on audio from Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

*** Information technology is included in impress in the new mass-market paperback edition of THE DRAGON FACTORY.

CHANGELING

Short Story

Joe Ledger teams with a mysterious British agent named Felicity to investigate a unsafe bioweapons factory.

** This story is included in the curt story collection JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, bachelor in print from JournalStone and on audio past Blackstone, read past Ray Porter

THE KING OF PLAGUES

NOVEL #iii of the ten-book Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Armed forces Sciences) Series

Published in 2011

Sat 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 annihilation he has ever seen. Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the DMS and inside hours is attacked by a hitting-team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak. Soon Joe Ledger and the Section of Armed forces Sciences brainstorm tearing down the veils of deception to uncover a vast and powerful secret society using weaponized versions of the 10 Plagues of Egypt to destabilize earth economies and profit from the resulting anarchy. Millions will die unless Joe Ledger meets the this powerful new enemy on their own terms as he fights terror with terror.

Available in merchandise paperback and eBook from St. Martin's Griffin and on audio from Blackstone

ISBN-10: 0312382502 / ISBN-13: 978-0312382506

Assassin'South Code

NOVEL #4 of the 10-book Joe Ledger DMS (Section of War machine Sciences) Series

Published in 200912

When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a grouping of American higher kids held earnest in Islamic republic of iran, the Iranian government so 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 cognition, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for claret. Accompanied by the cute assassinator called Violin, Joe follows a series of clues to find the Volume of Shadows, which contains a horrifying truth that threatens to shatter his unabridged worldview. They say the truth volition set you free… Not this fourth dimension. The secrets of the Assassin's Code will gear up the world ablaze.

Available in trade paperback and eBook from St. Martin's Griffin and on audio from Macmillan

ISBN-10: 0312552203 / ISBN-xiii: 978-0312552206

A FOOTNOTE IN THE Blackness BUDGET

Brusk Story

Joe Ledger, Top and Bunny become to the bottom of the world all the manner to the Mountains of Madness in this crossover with H. P. Lovecraft'south Cthulhu Mythos.

***This story is not yet released. Information technology will be included in the album THE MADNESS OF CTHULHU, edited by S.T. Joshi; late 2015

MAD SCIENCE

Curt Story

Joe Ledger and Violin become after a kill-squad of Cherry Knights in this sequel to ASSASSIN'Southward CODE.

** This story is included in the brusque story collection JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, available in print from JournalStone and on sound by Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

BORROWED POWER

Brusque Story

Joe Ledger teams with a mysterious British agent named Felicity to investigate a dangerous bioweapons factory.

A story told in two parts: A immature Mr. Church teams with Lilith to chase monsters in the sewers beneath Paris; and when that aboriginal evil rises once more, Joe Ledger and Violin close in for the kill.

** This story is included in the brusque story collection JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, available in print from JournalStone and on audio by Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

EXTINCTION MACHINE

NOVEL #5 of the 10-book Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Military Sciences) Serial

Published in 2013

The President of the Usa vanishes from the White Firm for v hours. Adjacent forenoon he is found, apparently safe and sound. Except that he claims that during the night he was abducted past aliens. A top-hugger-mugger prototype stealth fighter is destroyed during a exam flight. Witnesses on the basis say that it was shot down by a craft that immediately vanished at impossible speeds. Democratic people's republic of korea's ultra top-cloak-and-dagger weapons research lab is destroyed by a volcano –in an area where there has not been an eruption for forty millions years. All over the globe reports of UFOs are increasing at an alarming rate. Key military machine personnel, politicians and scientists begin disappearing. And in a remote fossil dig in Cathay dinosaur hunters accept plant something that is definitely not of this earth. Joe Ledger and the Department of Armed forces Sciences rush headlong into the estrus of the world'southward strangest and deadliest arms race, because the global race to recover and retro-engineer alien technologies has but hitting a snag. Someone—or something--wants that engineering science dorsum.

Code Zippo

NOVEL #6 of the 10-volume Joe Ledger DMS (Section of Military Sciences) Series

Published in 2014

A directly sequel to PATIENT ZERO. A rogue scientist within the DMS takes the Seif al Din pathogen (and dozens of other deadly and exotic weapons) and begins selling them to the highest bidders. Bizarre science-based terrorist attacks tear the nation apart –and at the heart of it are new outbreaks of the zombie plague that first brought Joe Ledger into the DMS. Joe and his crew team up with Arklight (from Assassin'S CODE) in a running battle that leaves a trail of bodies from Los Angeles to the steps of the White House.

THREE GUYS WALK INTO A BAR

Novella

Joe Ledger teams with Malcolm Crow (from the Pine Deep Trilogy) and Sam Hunter (from Strip Search) to tackle a squad experimenting with genetically-engineered werewolves.

This story is included in the album, LIMBUS Ii, bachelor from Journalstone Publishing

Antiquity

Short Story

Joe Ledger goes later an enigmatic device that could agree the key to permanent sustainable energy –or could become the near dangerous weapon on earth.

** This story is included in the short story collection JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, available in impress from JournalStone and on audio by Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

THE HANDYMAN GETS OUT

Brusk Story

Joe Ledger is naked and unarmed and has to escape a loftier-security facility armed with whatever he can find. Wait Joe to get cranky.

** This story is included in the short story collection JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS, available in print from JournalStone and on audio by Blackstone, read by Ray Porter

PREDATOR I

NOVEL #7 of the 10-book Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Military Sciences) Series

Published in 2015

A terrorist organisation uses hijacked drones to launch a wave of terror across America. Joe Ledger and his team foursquare off against a deadly old enemy.

Kill SWITCH

NOVEL #viii of the 10-book Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Military Sciences) Series

Published in 2016

Joe and the DMS are torn apart by a conspiracy that strikes to the heart of the global intelligence customs. ISIL teams are using directed-energy weapons to crash airplanes and darken American cities, spies are using cruel mind-control on Joe'due south most trusted agents, and Joe encounters a monstrous evil greater than annihilation he'south fought before.

DOGS OF WAR

NOVEL #9 of the 10-book Joe Ledger DMS (Section of Military Sciences) Series

Published in 2017

Dogs of State of war: Robots are no longer science fiction. Democratic, programmed to react similar animals: fast, relentless, mortiferous. From microscopic nanobots to massive self-guided aircraft. This engineering is hither, information technology's assessable, and information technology's dangerous. What'southward fifty-fifty scarier is that almost anyone can become their hands on it. A freelance terrorist uses the latest generation of robot dogs to evangelize WMDs into cities across America. Sophisticated armed services weapons systems plough on their human masters. A technological apocalypse is coming and we may be too late to finish it. Joe Ledger and a newly rebuilt Department of Military Sciences square off against this new and terrible threat. Dogs of State of war pits Joe against a merciless new enemy and an army of techno-terrorists in a race to prevent a global destruction. Allow loose the Dogs of War.

DEEP SILENCE

NOVEL #ten of the x-volume Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Military machine Sciences) Series

Published in 2018

Terrorists have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side-effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence. A moving ridge of madness begins sweeping the land kickoff with a mass shooting in Congress. Joe Ledger and his squad go on a wild hunt to end the terrorists and uncover the global super-power secretly funding them. At every footstep the stakes increase as information technology becomes clear that the end-game of this campaign of terror is igniting the Yellowstone caldera, the super-volcano that could destroy America. Deep Silence pits Joe Ledger against terrorists with bleeding-border science weapons, an international conspiracy, ancient technologies from Atlantis and Lemuria, and an escalating threat that could scissure open the entire Earth.

ATOLL

Curt Story

Something very strange is happening on the Pacific atoll of Palmyra. Everyone who goes in –scientists or military—vanish without a trace. Joe, Top and Bunny are sent in to investigate and see something non of this world.

** This story is included in the anthology, JOE LEDGER: UNSTOPPABLE, published by Griffin in 2017.

ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE

Novella

Joe Ledger teams with rare books expert Lizzie Corbett to stop a madman from opening a gateway to a hell dimension.

** This story is included in the album HELLHOLE: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror, edited by Lee Murray

RAGE

NOVEL #1 of JOE LEDGER: ROGUE TEAM INTERNATIONAL

Rage is the first title in Jonathan Maberry's brand new Joe Ledger spin-off series of international weird science thrillers.

A small island off the declension of Nippon is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone―men, women, and children―insane with murderous rage. The people behind that attack want Korea united or destroyed. No middle ground. No mercy. And they are willing to punish any country that stands in the mode―the United States, China, and Nippon could all be consumed past a plague of pure destructive slaughter.

Joe Ledger leads his newly formed band of international troubleshooters in their get-go mission to finish the terror cell, fighting alongside agents from North and South Korea. With the lives of billions at stake, Ledger is willing to bring his own brand of terror to this frightening new war.

JOE LEDGER: UNSTOPPABLE Co-edited past Bryan Thomas Schmidt and Jonathan Maberry

Anthology / Published by St. Martin'due south Griffin in 2017.

This is the showtime collection of all-original stories of Joe Ledger and the DMS written by some of today'south top authors of thrillers, scientific discipline fiction, mystery and horror.

Stories include:

The Honey Pot by Steve Alten

Confusion by Nicholas Steven

Target Acquired by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon

Vacation by Scott Sigler

Banshee by James A. Moore

Ruddy Dirt by Mira Grant

Blackness Water past Weston Ochse

Instinct by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and G.P. Charles

No Guns at the Bar by Aaron Rosenberg

Strange Harvest by Jon McGoran

No Business organisation at All by Javier Grillo-Marxuach

Ganbatte by Keith R.A. DeCandido

White Flame on Dominicus by James Ray Tuck

Moisture Tuesday by David Farland

Prince of Peace past Jeremy Robinson

Rookie by Joe McKinney

Three Times by Jennifer Campbell-Hicks

Psych Eval by Larry Correia

Crash Grade past Dana Fredsti

Atoll by Jonathan Maberry

Too….JOE LEDGER makes cameo appearances in…

THE DEAD OF Nighttime Series

Note: Joe Ledger appears in this series equally of book #3

Dead OF Nighttime

Novel; published in 2011 / Dead OF NIGHT Book #i

FALL OF Nighttime

Novel; published in 2014 / DEAD OF Dark Book #2

Notation: Sam Imura of Echo Team co-stars

LONE GUNMAN

Brusk Story featuring Sam Imura

Direct sequel to FALL OF NIGHT

Published in NIGHTS OF THE LIVING Expressionless, an anthology co-edited by Jonthan Maberry and George A. Romero

St. Martins Griffin, 2017

NOT THIS War, Non MY World

Short story featuring Sam Imura

Direct sequel to "Lone Gunman" and FALL OF NIGHT

To be published in WASTELANDS #3, an anthology co-edited by John Joseph Adams

Titan Books, June 2019

DARK OF Night

Novella; published in 2016 / DEAD OF NIGHT Book #3

In the weeks following the zombie apocalypse, Joe Ledger encounters Stebbins County Police Officer Dez Trick and the band of children she'southward trying to protect, as well as Rachael Elle, a cosplayer who now leads her own grouping of 'heroes' fighting to survive.

Co-written past Rachael Lavin for JournalStone Publishing. Bachelor on audio from Blackstone, read past Ray Porter.

STILL OF NIGHT

Collection; Nov 9, 2018 / Dead OF Dark Book #4

Includes the original story "Hot Fourth dimension in the Old Town Tonight"; the reprint story "Fat Girl with a Pocketknife"; and the original novel "However of Night" (Co-written by Rachael Lavin)

JournalStone Publishing. Available on audio from Blackstone, read by Ray Porter.

THE ROT AND RUIN Series

Notation: Joe Ledger is mentioned in the first books but becomes a series regular by book #iii. Set approximately 14 years after the events of Dead OF NIGHT

ROT & RUIN

Book #i of the ROT & RUIN series / Published in 2010

Fifteen-yr-old Benny Imura and his friends live in the small fenced-in town of Mountainside fourteen years afterward a zombie apocalypse. The dead rose, we cruel. Benny begins to larn the trade of zombie hunting from his older blood brother, Tom…and then goes outside the fence to learn the realities of this new and twisted world of the expressionless.

Available in hardcover, paperback and eBook from Simon & Schuster; and on sound from Recorded Books.

Dust & DECAY

Book #2 of the ROT & RUIN series / Published in 2011

Benny, Nada, Chong and Lilah the Lost Girl accompany Tom on a journey far across the fences of Mountainside to unlock the secrets of a world that might not be as dead as they all thought. And on the way they discover a lingering evil close to domicile.

Available in hardcover, paperback and eBook from Simon & Schuster; and on audio from Recorded Books.

WARRIOR SMART

Volume two.5 of the ROT & RUIN series / Graphic Novel, published in 2015

Benny, Zip, Chong and Lilah encounter Farmer John, who runs a huge subcontract deep in the Rot & Ruin, and who has a terrible and drastic plan for reclaiming the world from the living expressionless. Art past Tony Vargas / Covers by Alex Ronald / Colors by Oliver Lee Acre / Lettered past Robbie Robbins

From IDW Publishing

Mankind & Os

Book #3 of the ROT & RUIN series / Published in 2012

Reeling from the devastation of Dust & Decay, Benny Imura and his friends plunge deep into the zombie-infested wastelands of the bully Rot & Ruin. Only the Ruin is far more dangerous than any of them tin imagine. Fierce animals hunt them. They come face to face with a decease cult. And so there's the zombies—swarms of them coming from the east, devouring everything in their paths. And these zoms are different. Faster, smarter, and infinitely more dangerous. Has the zombie plague mutated, or is there something far more sinister behind this new invasion of the living dead?

Available in hardcover, paperback and eBook from Simon & Schuster; and on sound from Recorded Books.

Burn down & ASH

Volume #4 of the ROT & RUIN series / Published in 2013

In the gripping conclusion to the action-packed "standard bearer" (Booklist) of zombie serial, the threat of death is given new life. Benny Imura and his friends have establish the jet and Sanctuary—but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the aeroplane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who accept given up hope for civilization'southward future. With Chong hovering between life and decease, clinging to his humanity by a thread, Benny makes a startling discovery: A scientist may take discovered a cure for the zombie plague. Desperate to salvage Chong, Benny and his friends mount a search and rescue mission. Only they're not the only ones on the chase. The reapers are afterward the cure too, and they want to use it plow all the zombies into superfast shock troops—and wipe humanity off the face of the earth.

Available in hardcover, paperback and eBook from Simon & Schuster; and on sound from Recorded Books.

BITS & PIECES

Book #5 of the ROT & RUIN series / Published in 2015

A collection of short stories and novellas

Bits & Piecesfills in the gaps about what we know near First Night, surviving the plague, and traveling the land of Rot & Ruin. Eleven all-new curt stories from Nix'due south journal and xi previously published stories, including "Dead & Gone" and "Tooth & Nail," are now together and in print for the start time, along with the get-go-ever script for the Rot & Ruin comic books.

Available in hardcover and eBook from Simon & Schuster

THE Cleaved LANDS Series

Broken LANDS

Volume #one of the BROKEN LANDS series; Book #6 of the ROT & RUIN serial

Always since her female parent's death, Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar. But when her mother'due south undead trunk is returned to her doorstep from the grave and Gutsy witnesses a pack of ravagers earthworks upLos Muertos—her mother's proper name for the undead—she realizes that life finds you no matter how difficult you try to hide from it.

Meanwhile, Benny Imura and his gang set out on a journey to finish what Captain Joe Ledger started: they're going to find a cure. After what they went through in the Rot and Ruin, they recall they've seen information technology all, but as they venture into new and unexplored territory, they shortly acquire that the zombies they fought before were cypher compared to what they'll face in the wild across the peace and safe of their fortified town

Published by Simon & Schuster, 2018

LOST ROADS

Book #2 of the BROKEN LANDS series; Book #vii of the ROT & RUIN series

Gutsy Gomez'southward danger-filled journey to save those infected with the zombie plague continues in New York Times bestselling writer Jonathan Maberry'due south terrifying follow-upwardly to Cleaved Lands.

Gabriella "Gusty" Gomez lost her mother, and now she's losing her home.

Gutsy and her friends, along with Benny and his crew, take just survived a massive attack on New Alamo past the Night Army—a mix of mindless shambling los muertos and sentient half-zombie ravagers. She's as well reeling from the revelation that the residents of her town were the lab rats of the biological testing facility linked to creating the most dangerous zom, the Raggedy Man, who controls all of the living dead.

And the first raid was simply a exam. The real Night Regular army is coming, and this time, it'll be a handful of survivors confronting vii billion zombies.

Available August 25th, 2020

THE 5-WARS SERIES

ALL OF United states MONSTERS (V-Wars, problems #6-viii)

Comic Book

Joe Ledger makes a cameo in a three-outcome arc in the upcoming V-WARS comic from IDW. He'll join Luther Swann and V-8 in a battle against vampire super soldiers.

Now collected equally V-Wars Vol II graphic novel from IDW

WET WORKS

Curt Story

Joe Ledger and Violin are drawn into the vampire wars that have rocked the world.

** This story is included in the shared-world anthology, 5-WARS: SHOCKWAVES, published by IDW.

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