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The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 1
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Ray Porter
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Jonathan Maberry
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From multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry comes a major new thriller that combines the best of the New York Times best-selling books World War Z by Max Brooks and James Rollins’ Sigma Force Series to kick off the start of a new series featuring Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences.
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 who has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new task force 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 bioweapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.
Jonathan Maberry is the New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Ghost Road Blues, the first of a trilogy of thrillers with a supernatural bite. A professional writer and writing teacher, he has sold more than 1.000 articles, 17 nonfiction books, six novels, and two plays.
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There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at him too much. At least, not until he meets Mandy, his neighbor across the hall, and notices something unusual about her apartment. And Xela’s apartment. And Tim’s. And Veek’s.
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Super solid listen!!
- By Magpie on 06-24-12
By: Peter Clines
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Dead of Night
- A Zombie Novel
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave. But all drugs have unforeseen side-effects. Before he can be buried, the killer wakes up. Hungry. Infected. Contagious. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang… but a bite.
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Who Will Be Eaten Next?
- By Squeak on 11-04-11
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Joe Ledger: The Missing Files
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection of five short stories, Jonathan Maberry fills in the blanks in his action-thriller Joe Ledger novels.
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READ BEFORE BUYING LEDGER SHORT STORIES
- By Lisa on 04-27-12
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Alpha Wave
- The Sleepers War Series, Book 1
- By: Weston Ochse, Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 19 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We were outnumbered, outfought. Mankind was about to fall to the alien Flock. Our only chance was a desperate gamble, transforming Tier One SpecOps agents into deadly super soldiers. In the end, we won the war, but we lost the peace. The Flock surrendered and spent the next two hundred years making reparations, indentured to humanity, doing everything humans did not want to do. And the evolved super soldiers were consigned to an endless sleep. Ready if ever needed, but in time they became myths. Abandoned and forgotten.
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Alpha Wave and the Full Metal Fowl
- By kurt smiley on 09-17-23
By: Weston Ochse, and others
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NecroTek
- The Necrotek Series, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Neither cosmic philosopher Lars Soren, hotshot pilot Bianca Petrescu, nor the high priestess Jessica McHugh—Lady Death herself—can say quite where in the galaxy they are. But after an experiment gone horribly wrong, one thing is clear: Asphodel Station isn’t in orbit around Jupiter any longer. Worse, the monsters that live out here—ancient eldritch beings thought only to exist in stories and nightmares—have now been alerted to Earth’s existence.
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Dog water
- By Michael Nelson on 08-29-24
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Countdown
- A Prequel Story to Patient Zero
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland task force … who’s about to get a serious promotion.
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Unnecessary
- By John on 06-27-12
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Tales from the Fire Zone
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of five diverse and highly entertaining short stories, straight from the ingenious imagination of New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, includes one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.
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Not for the faint of heart
- By Rachel on 10-22-20
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Flybot
- By: Dennis E. Taylor
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Physicist Philip Moray is having a good day. He’s chipping away at his big work project. The lunch in the cafeteria is at least edible. And he’s looking forward to his end-of-the-day drink and a soak in the hot tub. Then, a strange device turns up in his office. A piece of technology he has never seen before–and shouldn’t even exist. Suddenly, corpses start turning up, eco-activists go on the attack, random people suffer bizarre symptoms. And every time the authorities get a lead, it traces right back to Philip and his colleague, Celia Hunt.
By: Dennis E. Taylor
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Plague of the Dead
- The Morningstar Strain, Book 1
- By: Z. A. Recht
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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The end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth. When a massive military operation fails to contain the plague of the living dead it escalates into a global pandemic.
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YOU MIGHT WANT TO PUT DOWN THAT CUP OF COFFEE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-08-16
By: Z. A. Recht
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Weird Tales Magazine No. 370
- Monster Issue
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Bronson Pinchot, Hillary Huber, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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You can’t have a good tale of monster hunting without monsters. And sometimes the monsters don’t need to be hunted. Sometimes it’s fun sitting back at minimum safe distance and watching the mayhem.
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weird tales magazine.. the monster issue
- By Natasha Alicea on 04-13-25
By: Jonathan Maberry
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Hell Divers
- Hell Divers Series, Book 1
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers - men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.
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A little cliche action hero-y but damn good story anyway
- By Jillian Noone on 09-04-19
Very, very good.
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The plot is reasonably complex and involved. The timing of events is reasonably well thought out, but the interactions with various military groups were rather far fetched. How much disbelief do you suspend?
Ah, the reading. As an English man I found the 'English' accents terrible. Can he only do an English that sounds like a brain damaged Cockney? This is the sort of 'English' accent that Americans use when they don't know they are being offensive. The bad accents were too much of the story to ignore. Other than that, and some weird pronunciation, Aden is Ayden not Ahden, the reading was OK. He was, at least, consistent. But really, not good.
It is a mistake to spend too much time explaining your fictional science, as an author you may be impressed with what you have learned, but it just provides more danger of revealing the holes. Prions are not indestructible, enzymes crack up proteins, even prions. They can be burned too. Reaction and action times probably come in this area too. The fastest anyone can react to a simple stimulus is around 100 milliseconds, typical is around 200. So NOBODY can react to a change and implement an alternate attack in 30ms. That's utterly ridiculous.
He really needs to find a better firearms instructor. That thing about 22s rattling around in the head and mushing the brain... did he learn that at a bar? It is rubbish. No professional chooses to take a hand gun to a battle as their primary weapon. No professional enters a combat situation without body armor. Nobody can tell the difference between a 9mm or 40S&W Glock without picking it up and reading it, they are virtually identical. A heart shot with a firearm will still take 20 seconds to incapacitate someone. The things you stick in semi automatic handguns are magazines, gang bangers use clips because they know no better. A clip is a device for holding loose rounds for loading in to a magazine.
People with a history involving the military don't go discarding advice to stay out of secure matters and go on to discuss what they have been told is secret with civilians. People who do do that sort of thing don't get hired, they get visits from
Then there's the weird love of therapists and apparent disdain for scientists. His therapist is a giant of a man who is so vastly impressive that he gets instantly hired by the secret agency and gets taken along on missions. Err. No. You see the shrink when it is all over. But our hero is so offended with the tame scientist that he wants to smash his face in for not being broken up by the reality of zombie involved slaughter. And yet he makes a big thing of not being too concerned himself later. I have worked with a lot of military types and that sort of expectation, even demand, for an emotional response is very artsy American, this modern emotional IQ notion perhaps. It is funny that on the one hand the author has to have had to talk to some fairly educated people about the science, and yet he needs to show disdain in his writing.
Over it all there was this weak minded pap about how damaged we were by 9/11 but that we didn't let the terrorists win by that and 7/7 and yet the US did let the terrorists win. The British, on the other hand, after 7/7, showed the US how it should be done. Life returned to normal the next day because you give terrorists their victory by changing how you live your life and spending trillions to attack uninvolved countries in a fit of teenage temper. That sort of attitude is not the attitude of special forces types who actually get the job done.
In the end the credibility gap in the zombie storyline if fine, because that's the fantasy of the book, but the ignorance of the people portrayed is the death of this book.
A good book spoiled - too inconsistent
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Okay story, excellent narrator
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Awesome!!!
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Awesome!!!!!
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I thought this was going to be a bizarre sci-fi story,(judging from the picture) but it turns out to be an anti-terrorism tale, with a new secret branch of the government out to foil the bad guys. Full of espionage, mystery, suspense, gun battles, humor, with a touch of love interest. Everything's there for a non-stop page turner, and it keeps your right on the edge of your seat. If you like Lucas Davenport, Harry Bosch, Jack Reacher, and even Harry Dresden, you will probably want to hear more from Joe Ledger.
Give me more of Joe Ledger!!
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Where does Patient Zero rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
This would make a great movie, lots of action and a great story.What other book might you compare Patient Zero to and why?
Don't know what to compare it to.What about Ray Porter’s performance did you like?
His ability to change his voice, you forget it's just one person.If you could rename Patient Zero, what would you call it?
The Legend of Joe Ledger: U.S.A Undead Sureal Anti-Humans.... LOLAny additional comments?
Great book and glad it was recommended to me.Loved it!!!
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First, the cover is awful and doesn’t reflect the novel well. This is not a zombie story; it is not a zombie apocalypse. It is a thriller, and there are some zombies.
What I found unsatisfying? The main character, the hero. For me, he is a poor leader. And all the posturing, god it was annoying.
And the sexism was annoying too. What was sexist about it? There are only two major female characters. I’m only going to deal with the Major because I felt my eyes rolling in my head many times regarding her. She’s a major in the military, trained well, yet she cries and runs to be held by the hero after a battle. Additionally, she cries a few times.
For the most port the plot is solid and suspenseful. They do seem to do a lot in 24 hours, but that isn’t such a stretch of the imagination.
I enjoyed that narration dealing with the terrorist more than the first-person narrative of Joe. Mostly because Joe is not the kind of guy I’d hang out with. He’s full of himself, and during the narration he would give little bits of advice ‘cause you know, he knows we are reading the book to learn about what to do in a fight. Example, middle of hand to hand combat, he narrates: using the opponents rage is a very useful tool. Eye rolling!
Look, I found the novel unsatisfying, but that I clearly saw this guy as a dick says something about the writing. I usually enjoy a thriller, but this isn’t one of my favorites. However, it might be for you.
Lastly, it was an audio book read by Ray Porter. I’ve encountered him before. I felt that his voice fit this novel well. His interpretation of the first-person narration may have contributed to my dislike of the character. He read the arrogance well. I recommend Porter.
Recommended: Sure. While I didn’t find the book satisfying, it isn’t horrible.
A tremendously unlikeable hero!
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I'll definitely be ordering the next one!
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terrific reading, somewhat corny story
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