Joe Ledger and Echo Team must hunt –and be hunted-deep down in the dark.Ī stand-alone short story that takes place in the early days of Joe Ledger’s service in the Department of Military Sciences, a top secret division of Homeland Security. In an underground bioweapons lab a team of scientists working to develop super soldiers instead create something that is far deadlier and infinitely stranger. Īvailable in print in THE LIVING DEAD 2 edited by John Joseph Adams This sequel to PATIENT ZERO brings Joe Ledger back into action, hunting for zombies in the deadly mountains of Afghanistan. Martin’s Griffin and on audio from Blackstone The fate of the world hangs in the balanceĪvailable in trade paperback and eBook from St. 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. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. 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. and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. 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.

NOVEL #1 of the 10-volume Joe Ledger DMS (Department of Military Sciences) Series

** 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 Letting the bad guys win isn’t how I roll.” Meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland task force… who's about to get a serious promotion. Sometimes things just fall that way, and either you roll with it or it rolls over you. I wasn’t totally against the idea, either. Short story teaser: “I didn’t plan to kill anyone. (including the DEAD OF NIGHT, ROT & RUIN, BROKEN LANDS and V-WARS series) The JOE LEDGER series (novels and short stories, so far) in chronological order.

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