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Joe Ledger #6
Code Zero
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Nominee for Readers' Favorite Horror (2014)For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world’s most secure facility. Until now. Joe Ledger and Echo Team are scrambled when a highly elite team of killers breaks the unbreakable security and steals the world’s most dangerous weapons. Within days there are outbreaks of mass slaughter and murderous insanity across the American heartland. Can Joe Ledger stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from turning the Land of the Free into a land of the dead?
Code Zero, a Joe Ledger novel from Jonathan Maberry, is the exciting direct sequel to Patient Zero
Code Zero, a Joe Ledger novel from Jonathan Maberry, is the exciting direct sequel to Patient Zero
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First published March 25, 2014
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Jonathan Maberry
502books7,646followersJONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-seller and Audible #1 bestseller, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, anthology editor, comic book writer, executive producer, magazine feature writer, playwright, and writing teacher/lecturer. He is the editor of WEIRD TALES Magazine and president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers. He is the recipient of the Inkpot Award, three Scribe Awards, and was named one of the Today’s Top Ten Horror Writers. His books have been sold to more than thirty countries. He writes in several genres including thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and mystery; and he writes for adults, middle grade, and young adult.
Jonathan is the creator, editor and co-author of V-WARS, a shared-world vampire anthology from IDW Publishing that was adapted into a NETFLIX series starring Ian Somerhalder (LOST, VAMPIRE DIARIES).
His young adult fiction includes ROT & RUIN (2011; was named in Booklist’s Ten Best Horror Novels for Young Adults, an American Library Association Top Pick, a Bram Stoker and Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading winner; winner of several state Teen Book Awards including the Cricket, Nutmeg and MASL; winner of the Cybils Award, the Eva Perry Mock Printz medal, Dead Letter Best Novel Award, and four Melinda Awards); DUST & DECAY (winner of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award; FLESH & BONE (winner of the Bram Stoker Award; 2012; and FIRE & ASH (August 2013). BROKEN LANDS, the first of a new spin-off series, debuted in 2018 and was followed by LOST ROADS in fall 2020. ROT & RUIN is in development for film by ALCON ENTERTAINMENT and was adapted as a WEBTOON (a serialized comic formatted for cell phones), becoming their #1 horror comic.
His novels include the enormously popular Joe Ledger series from St. Martin’s Griffin (PATIENT ZERO, 2009, winner of the Black Quill and a Bram Stoker Award finalist for Best Novel) and eleven other volumes, most recently RELENTLESS. His middle grade novel, THE NIGHTSIDERS BOOK 1: THE ORPHAN ARMY (Simon & Schuster) was named one the 100 Best Books for Children 2015. His standalone novels include MARS ONE, GLIMPSE, INK, GHOSTWALKERS (based on the DEADLANDS role-playing game), X-FILES ORIGINS: DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, and THE WOLFMAN --winner of the Scribe Award for Best Movie Adaptation
His horror novels include The Pine Deep Trilogy from Pinnacle Books (GHOST ROAD BLUES, 2006, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and named one of the 25 Best Horror Novels of the New Millennium; DEAD MAN’S SONG, 2007; and BAD MOON RISING, 2008; as well as DEAD OF NIGHT, and its sequels, FALL OF NIGHT, DARK OF NIGHT, and STILL OF NIGHT.
His epic fantasy series, KAGEN THE DAMNED debuts in May 2022. And he just signed to co-author (with Weston Ochse) a new series of military science fiction novels that launches the SLEEPERS series. Jonathan will also be launching a new series of science fiction horror novels for the newly established Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing.
He is also the editor of three THE X-FILES anthologies; the dark fantasy anthology series, OUT OF TUNE; SCARY OUT THERE, an anthology of horror for teens; and the anthologies ALIENS: BUG HUNT, NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD (with George Romero), JOE LEDGER UNSTOPPABLE (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt); two volumes of mysteries: ALTERNATE SHERLOCKS and THE GAME’S AFOOT (with Michael Ventrella); and ALIENS V PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt). He is also the editor of DON’T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, the official tribute to SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK. His next anthology will be ALIENS VS PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt), debuting in spring 2022.
Jonathan was an expert on the History Channel documentary series, ZOMBIES: A Living History and TRUE MONSTERS. And he was participated in the commentary track for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED.
His many nonfiction works include VAMPIRE UNIVERSE (Citadel Press, 2006); THE CRYPTOPED
Jonathan is the creator, editor and co-author of V-WARS, a shared-world vampire anthology from IDW Publishing that was adapted into a NETFLIX series starring Ian Somerhalder (LOST, VAMPIRE DIARIES).
His young adult fiction includes ROT & RUIN (2011; was named in Booklist’s Ten Best Horror Novels for Young Adults, an American Library Association Top Pick, a Bram Stoker and Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading winner; winner of several state Teen Book Awards including the Cricket, Nutmeg and MASL; winner of the Cybils Award, the Eva Perry Mock Printz medal, Dead Letter Best Novel Award, and four Melinda Awards); DUST & DECAY (winner of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award; FLESH & BONE (winner of the Bram Stoker Award; 2012; and FIRE & ASH (August 2013). BROKEN LANDS, the first of a new spin-off series, debuted in 2018 and was followed by LOST ROADS in fall 2020. ROT & RUIN is in development for film by ALCON ENTERTAINMENT and was adapted as a WEBTOON (a serialized comic formatted for cell phones), becoming their #1 horror comic.
His novels include the enormously popular Joe Ledger series from St. Martin’s Griffin (PATIENT ZERO, 2009, winner of the Black Quill and a Bram Stoker Award finalist for Best Novel) and eleven other volumes, most recently RELENTLESS. His middle grade novel, THE NIGHTSIDERS BOOK 1: THE ORPHAN ARMY (Simon & Schuster) was named one the 100 Best Books for Children 2015. His standalone novels include MARS ONE, GLIMPSE, INK, GHOSTWALKERS (based on the DEADLANDS role-playing game), X-FILES ORIGINS: DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, and THE WOLFMAN --winner of the Scribe Award for Best Movie Adaptation
His horror novels include The Pine Deep Trilogy from Pinnacle Books (GHOST ROAD BLUES, 2006, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and named one of the 25 Best Horror Novels of the New Millennium; DEAD MAN’S SONG, 2007; and BAD MOON RISING, 2008; as well as DEAD OF NIGHT, and its sequels, FALL OF NIGHT, DARK OF NIGHT, and STILL OF NIGHT.
His epic fantasy series, KAGEN THE DAMNED debuts in May 2022. And he just signed to co-author (with Weston Ochse) a new series of military science fiction novels that launches the SLEEPERS series. Jonathan will also be launching a new series of science fiction horror novels for the newly established Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing.
He is also the editor of three THE X-FILES anthologies; the dark fantasy anthology series, OUT OF TUNE; SCARY OUT THERE, an anthology of horror for teens; and the anthologies ALIENS: BUG HUNT, NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD (with George Romero), JOE LEDGER UNSTOPPABLE (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt); two volumes of mysteries: ALTERNATE SHERLOCKS and THE GAME’S AFOOT (with Michael Ventrella); and ALIENS V PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt). He is also the editor of DON’T TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, the official tribute to SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK. His next anthology will be ALIENS VS PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt), debuting in spring 2022.
Jonathan was an expert on the History Channel documentary series, ZOMBIES: A Living History and TRUE MONSTERS. And he was participated in the commentary track for NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED.
His many nonfiction works include VAMPIRE UNIVERSE (Citadel Press, 2006); THE CRYPTOPED
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September 17, 2023
Americanism!
I’m going out on a limb here and say that Code Zero, which is a sequel to Patient Zero, has blown the roof off the world!
In Patient Zero, Joe Ledger and his team were in a battle with zombies. Because a terrorist mastermind was responsible for the production of lethal biological weapons.
Ledger and Team Echo are now fighting for control of the same biological weapons from a new mastermind, Mother Night is her name.
And she is a computer genius who has stolen the weapons to use against the world. She is successful in her goals and her plans, but that is before Joe Ledger and the DMS figure things out.
Joe Ledger is still working with the DMS (Department of Military Science), and his team. They are working overtime to get their hands on Mother Night.
Ledger is not going to allow the public to be destroyed by this lunatic who lets dangerous viruses spread through the city and then the country. No way!
I really enjoyed reading this book. It’s as good as the first book, Patient Zero. Code Zero is longer in pages. Like the first book. It has very short chapters, which makes the book flow faster.
The only problem I have with this book is that the author has the habit of introducing new characters, then he gives them a background. A whole lot of information about them. Then he has them killed. Right after you have known him or liked him. He is blown away or mauled to death by a creature.
This is why I don’t like getting to know a new character. But I’m still enjoying this series. 😱
Five stars. ✨✨✨✨�
I’m going out on a limb here and say that Code Zero, which is a sequel to Patient Zero, has blown the roof off the world!
In Patient Zero, Joe Ledger and his team were in a battle with zombies. Because a terrorist mastermind was responsible for the production of lethal biological weapons.
Ledger and Team Echo are now fighting for control of the same biological weapons from a new mastermind, Mother Night is her name.
And she is a computer genius who has stolen the weapons to use against the world. She is successful in her goals and her plans, but that is before Joe Ledger and the DMS figure things out.
Joe Ledger is still working with the DMS (Department of Military Science), and his team. They are working overtime to get their hands on Mother Night.
Ledger is not going to allow the public to be destroyed by this lunatic who lets dangerous viruses spread through the city and then the country. No way!
I really enjoyed reading this book. It’s as good as the first book, Patient Zero. Code Zero is longer in pages. Like the first book. It has very short chapters, which makes the book flow faster.
The only problem I have with this book is that the author has the habit of introducing new characters, then he gives them a background. A whole lot of information about them. Then he has them killed. Right after you have known him or liked him. He is blown away or mauled to death by a creature.
This is why I don’t like getting to know a new character. But I’m still enjoying this series. 😱
Five stars. ✨✨✨✨�
October 28, 2019
I've revised my rating from 4 to 4.5/5 stars, rounded up to 5 for ŷ/Amazon.
The Joe Ledger series is a perfect example of how a great audiobook narrator can add to the magic of good writing. When both are combined together as they were in CODE ZERO? It's close to perfection.
Mother Night was an excellent, well drawn character with all kinds of evil levels. Her plans to lead Joe Ledger and his team on a wild good chase worked so well, I was genuinely afraid that I was going to have to say goodbye to a few beloved characters.
Did I have to do that? You'll have to read CODE ZERO to find out! I will say this: that ending had me driving down the highway legit crying.
Highly recommended, (but you should probably read the preceding books in the series first!)
I bought this audio book with my hard earned cash because Joe Ledger, Jonathan Maberry and Ray Porter MADE ME! (I could NOT continue waiting for each volume from the library.)
The Joe Ledger series is a perfect example of how a great audiobook narrator can add to the magic of good writing. When both are combined together as they were in CODE ZERO? It's close to perfection.
Mother Night was an excellent, well drawn character with all kinds of evil levels. Her plans to lead Joe Ledger and his team on a wild good chase worked so well, I was genuinely afraid that I was going to have to say goodbye to a few beloved characters.
Did I have to do that? You'll have to read CODE ZERO to find out! I will say this: that ending had me driving down the highway legit crying.
Highly recommended, (but you should probably read the preceding books in the series first!)
I bought this audio book with my hard earned cash because Joe Ledger, Jonathan Maberry and Ray Porter MADE ME! (I could NOT continue waiting for each volume from the library.)
August 13, 2023
Just love this series. I believe I started this series with book 5 and it was not an issue. This is book 6 but it feeds off of the first in the series Patient Zero and forewarns readers that it is in fact the sequel to the first Patient Zero. I would recommend reading Patient Zero prior to this one and the bonus in doing that is that it will open up a world to a great series.
Joe Ledger is our hero. He works for the Department of Military Sciences which is a secret government agency who employs only the best kick ass people for the ever ongoing war against terrorism. Yet most of the terrorism fought deals with things grown out of bio terrorism. Like there is a zombie virus which we first encounter in Patient Zero and it is back in this one. The series is well done and part of the reason in my mind is that Maberry actually sells his crazy ideas as the real thing and it actually works in my mind. The backbone for instance of the DMS is a super computer known as Mindreader. It gets into all other computers without being noticed and tracks what everyone is up to without anyone noticing. Far fetched - well in one of my other reviews I tell the story of how I dealt with Homeland security when we thought we might have a murderer in custody for a murder he may have recently committed in Virginia. Of course this guy wasn't saying much but was almost in tears because of what he had done. So our contact at Homeland was called and as he spoke to me re the case based solely on a name and a Michigan connection and in seconds he was telling me everything about this person, where they lived in Virginia, what they paid for the house etc. I was stunned at all the info based solely on a name and how common a name too. I asked how he was doing it so quick. He laughed and said google and that's when I laughed even harder cuz there is no way it was being done through google. The U.S. seems to be really on top of things since 911! PS there was no murder and everyone in Virginia was fine :)
And back to the crazy themes in this series. Ledger encounters Beserkers which are half man half ape creatures. And yeah Ledger kicks their ass. Again very buyable when the premise is laid out by Maberry and science is behind it. He uses a line that science can be really bad in wrong hands and you know what I really tend to believe him. No one is going to sanction man/animal hybrids but what if someone bad actually does. Not necessarily a govt either. Gets you thinking doesn't it?
In another story line in the series he basically gets into what vampires are really about and Ledger has to deal with them too. It's just crazy what he comes up with and based on his Ghost Road Blues vampire trilogy which again is way out there re vampires he is somewhat of an expert when it comes to takes on vampires.
So in Patient Zero Ledger dealt with the zombies and Berserkers and some crazy stuff and though every piece of evidence and every actual bio weapon was to be safely in the hands of the DMS at the end of that book these very bad things have somehow resurfaced.
Maberry ties in the resurfacing of these things to the political ideology that America must be saved from itself so in order to save it you have to have a pretty damn good reason to save it. Meaning that things must get so bad that the average person wants saving from their govt, wants hard and firm control by their government. I have a lot of smart friends who believe just that, that things are getting so damn stupid in the west that we will eventually be at our own throats and that's when the party will come to an end with strong totalitarian style government. With the lack of common sense out there and just watching how stupid things are really getting this line of thinking may be a true plausibility.
I guess that's why I like series like this and series like Orphan X in that some of the perceived absurdity of what I'm reading actually gets me thinking about real world happenings and wondering yeah maybe this book which seems so absurd in a way is really not that absurd at all.
As always the fight scenes are awesome. The first person narration which is done through Ledger is spot on giving you insight into how a person like him exists with himself. Ghost his white shepherd is back and he is such a deadly weapon but loveable character.
Our Villain Mother Night is quite crazy. It is not hard to figure out who she is and honestly I don't think Maberry was really trying to hide who she was as it really doesn't matter. This is one crazy ride start to finish. It is basically a 500 page novel full of action and twists and turns. I read it in about about a week and I seldom read more than 50 pages a day but this was just so much fun.
An easy five stars but remember I suggest reading the first, first which is Patient Zero and in doing so you open up yourself to one heck of a series. ENJOY :)
Joe Ledger is our hero. He works for the Department of Military Sciences which is a secret government agency who employs only the best kick ass people for the ever ongoing war against terrorism. Yet most of the terrorism fought deals with things grown out of bio terrorism. Like there is a zombie virus which we first encounter in Patient Zero and it is back in this one. The series is well done and part of the reason in my mind is that Maberry actually sells his crazy ideas as the real thing and it actually works in my mind. The backbone for instance of the DMS is a super computer known as Mindreader. It gets into all other computers without being noticed and tracks what everyone is up to without anyone noticing. Far fetched - well in one of my other reviews I tell the story of how I dealt with Homeland security when we thought we might have a murderer in custody for a murder he may have recently committed in Virginia. Of course this guy wasn't saying much but was almost in tears because of what he had done. So our contact at Homeland was called and as he spoke to me re the case based solely on a name and a Michigan connection and in seconds he was telling me everything about this person, where they lived in Virginia, what they paid for the house etc. I was stunned at all the info based solely on a name and how common a name too. I asked how he was doing it so quick. He laughed and said google and that's when I laughed even harder cuz there is no way it was being done through google. The U.S. seems to be really on top of things since 911! PS there was no murder and everyone in Virginia was fine :)
And back to the crazy themes in this series. Ledger encounters Beserkers which are half man half ape creatures. And yeah Ledger kicks their ass. Again very buyable when the premise is laid out by Maberry and science is behind it. He uses a line that science can be really bad in wrong hands and you know what I really tend to believe him. No one is going to sanction man/animal hybrids but what if someone bad actually does. Not necessarily a govt either. Gets you thinking doesn't it?
In another story line in the series he basically gets into what vampires are really about and Ledger has to deal with them too. It's just crazy what he comes up with and based on his Ghost Road Blues vampire trilogy which again is way out there re vampires he is somewhat of an expert when it comes to takes on vampires.
So in Patient Zero Ledger dealt with the zombies and Berserkers and some crazy stuff and though every piece of evidence and every actual bio weapon was to be safely in the hands of the DMS at the end of that book these very bad things have somehow resurfaced.
Maberry ties in the resurfacing of these things to the political ideology that America must be saved from itself so in order to save it you have to have a pretty damn good reason to save it. Meaning that things must get so bad that the average person wants saving from their govt, wants hard and firm control by their government. I have a lot of smart friends who believe just that, that things are getting so damn stupid in the west that we will eventually be at our own throats and that's when the party will come to an end with strong totalitarian style government. With the lack of common sense out there and just watching how stupid things are really getting this line of thinking may be a true plausibility.
I guess that's why I like series like this and series like Orphan X in that some of the perceived absurdity of what I'm reading actually gets me thinking about real world happenings and wondering yeah maybe this book which seems so absurd in a way is really not that absurd at all.
As always the fight scenes are awesome. The first person narration which is done through Ledger is spot on giving you insight into how a person like him exists with himself. Ghost his white shepherd is back and he is such a deadly weapon but loveable character.
Our Villain Mother Night is quite crazy. It is not hard to figure out who she is and honestly I don't think Maberry was really trying to hide who she was as it really doesn't matter. This is one crazy ride start to finish. It is basically a 500 page novel full of action and twists and turns. I read it in about about a week and I seldom read more than 50 pages a day but this was just so much fun.
An easy five stars but remember I suggest reading the first, first which is Patient Zero and in doing so you open up yourself to one heck of a series. ENJOY :)
February 1, 2021
Another action packed book from Jonathan Maberry. Fans of Matthew Reilly and James Rollins should be reading this series.
April 10, 2014
SHORT VERSION:
WOAH.
This is the worthy sequel to Patient Zero.
At one point, Rudy Sanchez says that "this has done something fundamental to the American people."
I'll tell you this. It did something fundamental to me.
It was exciting, suspenseful, terrifying, and haunted me in my dreams and at random moments in my day.
And it was satisfying. Very satisfying.
I'm not sure Maberry can top this. Though I'm already looking forward to his next attempt to try.
LONG VERSION:
It's been six years since Joe Ledger was secretly recruited by the government to lead a combat team for the DMS, a taskforce created to deal with problems that Homeland Security can't handle. That story was told in . This was where we met a group of terrorists who had developed a bio-weapon that turned people into zombies.
Every year since then, like clockwork, Joe and Echo Team have returned to battle a variety of seemingly supernatural foes, all developed by villains who are somehow going to make boatloads of cash off of the terror.
The action-packed stories are full of evil super-villains, noble heroes, smart mouthed quips, a smattering of philosophy about "good guys and bad guys" and heart. Lots of heart. All this is told at a roller coaster pace that barely allows you to breathe until you get to the end.
I love them.
In many ways, this book is similar to the rest of the series. Mother Night, a villain you love to hate, is a super-genius anarchist who's strewing chaos throughout the country over Labor Day weekend. She's got the DMS's computer tied up in knots and old evils that were defeated in previous books are now popping their heads up all over the country. Losses are high and the odds are very much against Ledger and his team. We know Joe will win. It's watching it happen that makes it fun.
It is superior to the other books, I think, because the pacing is more measured and there is more character development. I also enjoyed the flashbacks into the DMS's years before Joe joined them.
But in one very important way Code Zero was very different for me.
I felt a level of anxiety that was all out of proportion. Maberry is an expert at ratcheting up the stakes until you just can't see how anyone decent is going to survive the maelstrom. I was used to that. But somehow this felt different. I got a bit jumpy. I couldn't quit thinking about the horrific chaos during the day when I had to put the book down. It stuck with me in a way the other books didn't.
In fact, after I finished Code Zero I had to go find a nice, gentle book to read. I just couldn't face anything hard-edged. (Hello, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.)
Then I woke up this morning to news on my clock radio about multiple stabbings at a high school. And I figured it out.
Maberry has his finger on the pulse of the evil that Americans today know all too well ... that lurks below the conscious level of our lives ... violent chaos that can strike without a moment's notice. Shootings at Fort Hood, restaurants, schools, and more have changed the mood of our country and made Mother Night's chaos resonate more deeply than usual.
Along the way, he looks at why people choose good or evil. This has been mentioned in other books, but never with so many examples as in this one. Maberry doesn't spell it out much but this conversation between a DMS scientist and Joe Ledger gave the larger context, as well as defining everyone's actions in the book.
Mother Night gives it a different name, and she may not tidily fall into this definition but, let's face it, she's super-villain crazy. I believe that her ultimate fate bears me out. It shows most in Maberry's final scenario at the end of the book as the answer to Rudy's statement that the chaos"has done something fundamental to the American people.
Truly this is a great book, especially for the shoot-em-up genre. It is also probably one that can be read as a stand alone without reading the others that came before.
AUDIO NOTES
I listened to the audiobook read by Ray Porter who was superb, as usual, at portraying Joe and every other character along the way. In this book Porter dialed his urgent, driving, delivery down some and thank goodness for that. The action was intense enough without being shoved over the edge of the cliff by a continually urgent tone. Porter also was more nuanced and thoughtful in his reading than I recall in previous Joe Ledger books. If this sounds odd when considering our heroes are fighting off zombies, it actually worked to make me consider the full horror being faced. Once again, kudos to Ray Porter. He's the reason I always choose audio for the Joe Ledger books.
WOAH.
This is the worthy sequel to Patient Zero.
At one point, Rudy Sanchez says that "this has done something fundamental to the American people."
I'll tell you this. It did something fundamental to me.
It was exciting, suspenseful, terrifying, and haunted me in my dreams and at random moments in my day.
And it was satisfying. Very satisfying.
I'm not sure Maberry can top this. Though I'm already looking forward to his next attempt to try.
LONG VERSION:
It's been six years since Joe Ledger was secretly recruited by the government to lead a combat team for the DMS, a taskforce created to deal with problems that Homeland Security can't handle. That story was told in . This was where we met a group of terrorists who had developed a bio-weapon that turned people into zombies.
Every year since then, like clockwork, Joe and Echo Team have returned to battle a variety of seemingly supernatural foes, all developed by villains who are somehow going to make boatloads of cash off of the terror.
The action-packed stories are full of evil super-villains, noble heroes, smart mouthed quips, a smattering of philosophy about "good guys and bad guys" and heart. Lots of heart. All this is told at a roller coaster pace that barely allows you to breathe until you get to the end.
I love them.
In many ways, this book is similar to the rest of the series. Mother Night, a villain you love to hate, is a super-genius anarchist who's strewing chaos throughout the country over Labor Day weekend. She's got the DMS's computer tied up in knots and old evils that were defeated in previous books are now popping their heads up all over the country. Losses are high and the odds are very much against Ledger and his team. We know Joe will win. It's watching it happen that makes it fun.
It is superior to the other books, I think, because the pacing is more measured and there is more character development. I also enjoyed the flashbacks into the DMS's years before Joe joined them.
But in one very important way Code Zero was very different for me.
I felt a level of anxiety that was all out of proportion. Maberry is an expert at ratcheting up the stakes until you just can't see how anyone decent is going to survive the maelstrom. I was used to that. But somehow this felt different. I got a bit jumpy. I couldn't quit thinking about the horrific chaos during the day when I had to put the book down. It stuck with me in a way the other books didn't.
In fact, after I finished Code Zero I had to go find a nice, gentle book to read. I just couldn't face anything hard-edged. (Hello, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.)
Then I woke up this morning to news on my clock radio about multiple stabbings at a high school. And I figured it out.
Maberry has his finger on the pulse of the evil that Americans today know all too well ... that lurks below the conscious level of our lives ... violent chaos that can strike without a moment's notice. Shootings at Fort Hood, restaurants, schools, and more have changed the mood of our country and made Mother Night's chaos resonate more deeply than usual.
Along the way, he looks at why people choose good or evil. This has been mentioned in other books, but never with so many examples as in this one. Maberry doesn't spell it out much but this conversation between a DMS scientist and Joe Ledger gave the larger context, as well as defining everyone's actions in the book.
"I've watched the tapes of Rudy interviewing some of the people you and Col. Riggs and the others have arrested. Some of them seem so ordinary. How can they commit those atrocities if they have a conscience? Is it their nature? Or is it a nurture thing? Are they from an environment that makes it ok for them?"Code Zero is full of people choosing to save the world or burn it down. In most of the cases, the motivation comes down to something that Maberry does not name, but which I will make bold to label: love. We want to know we matter, that we make a difference, that someone "knows" us. Not for our accomplishments but simply because our "selves" matter.
Joe grunted. "I asked Rudy that same exact question once."
"What did he say?"
"He said that the nature versus nurture question is fundamentally flawed because it assumes that there are only two possible forces at work on a person. Sure, a person's nature is a factor and that could be a produce of their brain chemistry or whatever makes a person a sociopath or a psychotic or a hero. Just as the forces in a person's life have to be taken into some account. Some abused children grow up to abuse. There's math for that. But neither viewpoint covers all the possible bases."
"So what's missing?"
"Choice," said Ledger. "Rudy thinks that choice is often more important than either nature or nurture. Some people grow up in hell and choose to let others share in that hell. Some people grow up in hell and they make damn sure they don't let those in their care ever glimpse those fires. It's a choice."
"Not everyone can make that choice."
"No, of course not. But a lot more people can than you might think." ...
"Choice," she said.
"Choice," he agreed. "It's what defines us. And it's probably the most underrated power in the world."
Mother Night gives it a different name, and she may not tidily fall into this definition but, let's face it, she's super-villain crazy. I believe that her ultimate fate bears me out. It shows most in Maberry's final scenario at the end of the book as the answer to Rudy's statement that the chaos"has done something fundamental to the American people.
Truly this is a great book, especially for the shoot-em-up genre. It is also probably one that can be read as a stand alone without reading the others that came before.
AUDIO NOTES
I listened to the audiobook read by Ray Porter who was superb, as usual, at portraying Joe and every other character along the way. In this book Porter dialed his urgent, driving, delivery down some and thank goodness for that. The action was intense enough without being shoved over the edge of the cliff by a continually urgent tone. Porter also was more nuanced and thoughtful in his reading than I recall in previous Joe Ledger books. If this sounds odd when considering our heroes are fighting off zombies, it actually worked to make me consider the full horror being faced. Once again, kudos to Ray Porter. He's the reason I always choose audio for the Joe Ledger books.
February 22, 2015
Got this book a bit earlier than the official release date because I bought it at the Tucson book festival! SIGNED!! To ME! And met Mr. Maberry in the flesh! What a gracious, incredible person!!
I am a HUGE fan of the Benny Imura series! Huge!! But oohhhh, Joe Ledger is who I covet! ;) So with that said I went searching for more of Mr. Ledger and found him in . Between Joe and the invention of the Walkers, I was fangirling big time!
And then Code Zero! More Joe! And more Walkers, along with one of the most insane, brilliant, psychotic, evil, scary villians I've come across! Yikes. I literally could not turn the pages fast enough. When I turned that last page and finished reading that last word, I realized I was out of breath and my heart was pounding!
I think I'm going through Joe Ledger withdrawals now. Or maybe it's Maberry withdrawals? ;) Well done, Mr. Maberry! You are a superb storyteller!
I am a HUGE fan of the Benny Imura series! Huge!! But oohhhh, Joe Ledger is who I covet! ;) So with that said I went searching for more of Mr. Ledger and found him in . Between Joe and the invention of the Walkers, I was fangirling big time!
And then Code Zero! More Joe! And more Walkers, along with one of the most insane, brilliant, psychotic, evil, scary villians I've come across! Yikes. I literally could not turn the pages fast enough. When I turned that last page and finished reading that last word, I realized I was out of breath and my heart was pounding!
I think I'm going through Joe Ledger withdrawals now. Or maybe it's Maberry withdrawals? ;) Well done, Mr. Maberry! You are a superb storyteller!
March 8, 2017
If you like having fun then read Jonathan Maberry. His Pine Deep trilogy is one of the best horror series ever and these Joe Ledger books get better and better. Usually after a few books characters can get stale and stories formulaic but not Ledger, these are fresh every single time. Highly recommended!
February 21, 2023
Overall Rating : B+
"Anarchy is the Mother of Order."
A deadly Cyber-terrorist has taken to attacking random places around the U.S. using what was previously thought of as locked up bio-weapons from the DMS's past and brings in Joe Ledger and team. They are on the race to find out who and the why before it destroys the country.
This took me back to the earlier books in the series and I'm supremely glad. And a certain someone FINALLY gets what's coming for them and that automatically bumps it up a star.
I'm also happy that Joe is finally finding some happiness in his life as well. I guess that last book was good for something after all.
"Anarchy is the Mother of Order."
A deadly Cyber-terrorist has taken to attacking random places around the U.S. using what was previously thought of as locked up bio-weapons from the DMS's past and brings in Joe Ledger and team. They are on the race to find out who and the why before it destroys the country.
This took me back to the earlier books in the series and I'm supremely glad. And a certain someone FINALLY gets what's coming for them and that automatically bumps it up a star.
I'm also happy that Joe is finally finding some happiness in his life as well. I guess that last book was good for something after all.
August 26, 2019
My review of can be found at .
Code Zero, the sixth installment of Jonathan Maberry’s long-running, kinetic cross-genre action series, is a bit of a stroll down memory lane as Joe Ledger’s past with the Department of Military Science comes back to haunt him. Although it’s billed as a direct sequel to Patient Zero, the very first Joe Ledger book, it’s more of a culmination of all five preceding novels as certain elements from each of those works return in some capacity here. Fans expecting a return to the high-octane thrill of combat specialists squaring off against hordes of the undead from Patient Zero will have to be patient for the zombie mayhem to kick into gear, though, as the threat Ledger and the DMS face here is so much bigger than that singular threat from yesteryear.
Mother Night is at the head of an anarchist revolution hellbent on destroying America and rebuilding it under a new doctrine. To satisfy her aims, she’s launched a multi-pronged and multi-faceted war across the country, unleashing a spate of threats the DMS had believed was already conquered. As they respond to one encounter after another, it becomes apparent that the various bio-engineered plagues and genetically modified supersoldiers they’d defeated were not as contained as they’d once thought. Somehow, the research from various organizations they’ve warred against, like The Dragon Factory and the Seven Kings, has been stolen and repurposed. As they hunt for Mother Night, and answers as to who she is and how she has these weapons, Ledger and his squadron, Echo Team, find themselves squaring off against berserkers, suiting up against supremely deadly strains of modified Ebola, and reliving their worst nightmare as the Seif al Din pathogen is released, turning Americans into bloodthirsty hordes of walkers.
Code Zero is an absolute rush, and possibly one of the best Joe Ledger books since this series� debut. Maberry keeps the pedal pressed firmly down to the metal, hard enough to let sparks fly. And believe me, there are a lot of sparks in this one. Maberry has always been really good at combining military, sci-fi, and horror genres under one roof in these books, creating a cogent work from these disparate elements. These genre pieces fit together seamlessly, and in Code Zero you get a thriller that’s a bit like 24 meets The Walking Dead, with some dashes of The X-Files for good measure.
If you’ve kept up with this series, then you know the formula by now. Maberry doesn’t mess with his usual recipe for these books � Ledger is still a tough, wise-ass killer, and yes, we do have to sit through another spiel about Joe’s three competing psyches (the Cop, the Warrior, and the Civilized Man) just in case this is your first ride along. The villain and her motivations are revealed over the course of multiple interludes that fall between a number of short chapters that keep the story moving along at a dizzying pace and end on cliffhangers that keep the pages flying. The bad guys are totally irredeemable, and the justice they’re dealt is mostly satisfying. I would have liked one particularly sleazy politician operating against the DMS to have gotten his just desserts in a more crowd-pleasing manner, but it doesn’t do much to detract from the overall goodness of this installment.
As for the Seif al Din and its resultant zombies� Patient Zero wasted absolutely no time getting readers into the thick of things and even created some absolutely harrowing, gut-punch encounters. Readers expecting Code Zero to follow suit might be a bit disappointed. It takes a while before the DMS confronts their first horde, but the grade finale is supremely entertaining, particularly when Ledger discovers one last infected surprise courtesy of Mother Night.
On the narration front, Ray Porter � as always � delivers a thousand percent in his reading. Porter is Joe Ledger, and the voice of this series. He’s pitch perfect the whole way through, and I can’t ever imagine a DMS book without his voice supporting it. He’s one of the few narrators out there that I always find myself turning toward the audiobook edition instead of the print work simply because of his involvement. Even in the short stories Maberry’s written about Joe Ledger, such as for the anthology Hell Hole, it’s Porter’s voices that I hear when reading. He brings these characters to life, giving each individual their own authentic, distinguishable voice. As usual, the production and narration are positively flawless.
Six books in, and the Joe Ledger books still haven’t gotten stale for me. That’s a pretty big win as I’m the type of reader who, pretty easily, suffers from series fatigue. I get bored reading the same characters book after book after book (sorry, Detective Bosch, Jack Reacher, Agent Pendergast), but somehow Maberry keeps finding these particular sweet spots for me that keep me interested. Maybe it’s the concept, or the ways he taps into my sense of patriotism without the blatant jingoism certain other American military-fiction writers seem to revel in, or maybe it’s just because Joe Ledger is an awesome hero with a wicked sense of humor and plenty of grouchy snark. Whatever it is, I’m ready to roll out with the DMS crew again.
Code Zero, the sixth installment of Jonathan Maberry’s long-running, kinetic cross-genre action series, is a bit of a stroll down memory lane as Joe Ledger’s past with the Department of Military Science comes back to haunt him. Although it’s billed as a direct sequel to Patient Zero, the very first Joe Ledger book, it’s more of a culmination of all five preceding novels as certain elements from each of those works return in some capacity here. Fans expecting a return to the high-octane thrill of combat specialists squaring off against hordes of the undead from Patient Zero will have to be patient for the zombie mayhem to kick into gear, though, as the threat Ledger and the DMS face here is so much bigger than that singular threat from yesteryear.
Mother Night is at the head of an anarchist revolution hellbent on destroying America and rebuilding it under a new doctrine. To satisfy her aims, she’s launched a multi-pronged and multi-faceted war across the country, unleashing a spate of threats the DMS had believed was already conquered. As they respond to one encounter after another, it becomes apparent that the various bio-engineered plagues and genetically modified supersoldiers they’d defeated were not as contained as they’d once thought. Somehow, the research from various organizations they’ve warred against, like The Dragon Factory and the Seven Kings, has been stolen and repurposed. As they hunt for Mother Night, and answers as to who she is and how she has these weapons, Ledger and his squadron, Echo Team, find themselves squaring off against berserkers, suiting up against supremely deadly strains of modified Ebola, and reliving their worst nightmare as the Seif al Din pathogen is released, turning Americans into bloodthirsty hordes of walkers.
Code Zero is an absolute rush, and possibly one of the best Joe Ledger books since this series� debut. Maberry keeps the pedal pressed firmly down to the metal, hard enough to let sparks fly. And believe me, there are a lot of sparks in this one. Maberry has always been really good at combining military, sci-fi, and horror genres under one roof in these books, creating a cogent work from these disparate elements. These genre pieces fit together seamlessly, and in Code Zero you get a thriller that’s a bit like 24 meets The Walking Dead, with some dashes of The X-Files for good measure.
If you’ve kept up with this series, then you know the formula by now. Maberry doesn’t mess with his usual recipe for these books � Ledger is still a tough, wise-ass killer, and yes, we do have to sit through another spiel about Joe’s three competing psyches (the Cop, the Warrior, and the Civilized Man) just in case this is your first ride along. The villain and her motivations are revealed over the course of multiple interludes that fall between a number of short chapters that keep the story moving along at a dizzying pace and end on cliffhangers that keep the pages flying. The bad guys are totally irredeemable, and the justice they’re dealt is mostly satisfying. I would have liked one particularly sleazy politician operating against the DMS to have gotten his just desserts in a more crowd-pleasing manner, but it doesn’t do much to detract from the overall goodness of this installment.
As for the Seif al Din and its resultant zombies� Patient Zero wasted absolutely no time getting readers into the thick of things and even created some absolutely harrowing, gut-punch encounters. Readers expecting Code Zero to follow suit might be a bit disappointed. It takes a while before the DMS confronts their first horde, but the grade finale is supremely entertaining, particularly when Ledger discovers one last infected surprise courtesy of Mother Night.
On the narration front, Ray Porter � as always � delivers a thousand percent in his reading. Porter is Joe Ledger, and the voice of this series. He’s pitch perfect the whole way through, and I can’t ever imagine a DMS book without his voice supporting it. He’s one of the few narrators out there that I always find myself turning toward the audiobook edition instead of the print work simply because of his involvement. Even in the short stories Maberry’s written about Joe Ledger, such as for the anthology Hell Hole, it’s Porter’s voices that I hear when reading. He brings these characters to life, giving each individual their own authentic, distinguishable voice. As usual, the production and narration are positively flawless.
Six books in, and the Joe Ledger books still haven’t gotten stale for me. That’s a pretty big win as I’m the type of reader who, pretty easily, suffers from series fatigue. I get bored reading the same characters book after book after book (sorry, Detective Bosch, Jack Reacher, Agent Pendergast), but somehow Maberry keeps finding these particular sweet spots for me that keep me interested. Maybe it’s the concept, or the ways he taps into my sense of patriotism without the blatant jingoism certain other American military-fiction writers seem to revel in, or maybe it’s just because Joe Ledger is an awesome hero with a wicked sense of humor and plenty of grouchy snark. Whatever it is, I’m ready to roll out with the DMS crew again.
June 4, 2024
This is a sequel to Patient Zero which was one of the first I read by this author and fell in love with his work so OF COURSE, this had me hyped to read and of course it did not disappoint. This narrator is the best and I am convinced he is the real life Joe Ledger because he just tells the story like he is. 👏🤣
September 4, 2021
Rating: 3.5 stars
If Joe Ledger was a TV series, Code Zero is that episode mid-season where the producers try to save money by revisiting previous episodes and using flashback scenes to fill up time. That's not necessarily a bad thing as Code Zero does a good job of tying the previous five books together as Joe and Echo Team must face their past as someone calling herself Mother Night is reviving old horrors.
Unfortunately, this splits the story's narrative in two as we get present day Echo Team trying to figure out what's going on and all the flashbacks to previous events to help fill in the history on Mother Night. Also unfortunately, I just didn't like the Mother Night part of the story, which felt like it takes up half of the book. Since I listen to the audio book, I can't tell for sure if Mother Night's back story really took that long or just felt that way because I didn't like her character much. She is wicked smart and I can see why she'd be recruited by the DMS. What I don't get is how . It was a very creative use of her hacking abilities though to thwart Mind Reader.
The present day portion of the story is engaging. You just can't go wrong with macho man Joe Ledger doing his thing to save civilization from psychopaths and weird science experiments! I also liked that we got more into Church's character and STILL he's able to remain fairly mysterious. Very well done Mr. Maberry!
Hopefully this is a temporary lull in the series and the next installment will be back to giving us a new threat for Joe and the DMS to overcome.
If Joe Ledger was a TV series, Code Zero is that episode mid-season where the producers try to save money by revisiting previous episodes and using flashback scenes to fill up time. That's not necessarily a bad thing as Code Zero does a good job of tying the previous five books together as Joe and Echo Team must face their past as someone calling herself Mother Night is reviving old horrors.
Unfortunately, this splits the story's narrative in two as we get present day Echo Team trying to figure out what's going on and all the flashbacks to previous events to help fill in the history on Mother Night. Also unfortunately, I just didn't like the Mother Night part of the story, which felt like it takes up half of the book. Since I listen to the audio book, I can't tell for sure if Mother Night's back story really took that long or just felt that way because I didn't like her character much. She is wicked smart and I can see why she'd be recruited by the DMS. What I don't get is how . It was a very creative use of her hacking abilities though to thwart Mind Reader.
The present day portion of the story is engaging. You just can't go wrong with macho man Joe Ledger doing his thing to save civilization from psychopaths and weird science experiments! I also liked that we got more into Church's character and STILL he's able to remain fairly mysterious. Very well done Mr. Maberry!
Hopefully this is a temporary lull in the series and the next installment will be back to giving us a new threat for Joe and the DMS to overcome.
June 6, 2019
As I listened to this latest book in the series I think I figured out what draws me back each time. The Main character is just as flawed and human as me and the people I know. Oh he wins each time but each victory takes a toll on his psyche. He becomes more scarred and damaged by the fight just like a regular person would. Maberry does an excellent job conveying this. As a 20+ year military vet the struggles ring true and are told in a realistic manner. Very nice job Mr. Maberry. Very recommended
November 30, 2024
So good and intense. Love this series!
April 18, 2019
Code Zero.
There are no words more terrifying to me, either in my private lexicon or in that used by the Department of Military Sciences. Hearing those words punched me in the solar plexus. It stabbed me in the heart. A big, dark ball of black terror expanded inside my chest. We have different codes for the various kinds of threats we face. Code E is an Ebola outbreak. Code N is a nuke. But Code Zero� God.
That was used only for a specific kind of horror that I hoped was gone forever from my life and from this world.
It brought me all the way back to my first day with the DMS. To the first of horror of this world in which I now live. Code Zero indicated an outbreak of a very specific kind of disease pathogen. A bioweapon of immeasurable ferocity. The people who designed this weapon called it the Seif-Al-Din. The Sword of the Faithful. What is left of the infected host is a mindless, shambling, eternally hungry killing machine with an infection rate of nearly one hundred percent.
A walker.
A zombie.
No one had survived a bite; no one came back from infection.
That was the Seif-Al-Din.
That was a Code Zero. If this got out, the world would consume itself. Totally. Completely. Ravenously. Dear God."
- Captain Joseph Edwin Ledger,
Department of Military Sciences,
Case file: CODE ZERO
At the risk of sounding like a psychopath, the Zombie plague (from ) is back with a vengeance, and with it brings undoubedly one of the very best of this series, maybe one of the greatest techno-action-thriller ever... so HELL FREKKING YESSS!
The story read like a final season of an action-suspense tv show (preferably '24') where ALL the past plotlines and past terrorist-attacks were combined together delivering us one heck of a literally breathtaking, nailbiting, hair-raising edge-of-seat pulse-pounding mindbending thrillride!! Just... WOW. And aside for the ingenious plot, the book is also brilliantly character-driven, with painstakingly detailed 'Whys' & 'Hows' from the multilayered psyches of our enigmatic antagonist the mysterious Mother Night.
Jonathan Maberry, take my salute sir, you are The action-thriller author I had been searching for my whole life!
My rating: 12 out of 10.
February 3, 2014
REVIEW SUMMARY: Code Zero? Code Awesome more like!
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A new foe has resurrected old threats. With DMS already spread thin, can Joe Ledger and Echo Team end a wave of bio-terrorism that is sweeping the nation?
PROS: Best villain in the series to date, nice buildup, Joe Ledger's trademark wit, phenomenal finale, big potential changes in store for the future.
CONS: Pacing issues due to interludes.
BOTTOM LINE: The series is still going strong and Code Zero is one of the best entries yet.
Another year, another Joe Ledger Novel -- the sixth in the series to be precise. It's a series I've been following since the beginning, a series that has had its fair share of high and low points. Joe Ledger's dry wit and Jonathan Maberry's twisted imagination keep me coming back repeatedly. The Joe Ledger Novels are like 24 meets X-Files, it's like Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series rooted in science rather than mysticism. The bio-terror threats that Captain Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences face are chilling and creative. Code Zero is, in many ways, a culmination of the past five novels as well as a more direct sequel to Patient Zero (book one). Code Zero is also among the better novels in the series, ranking just below Assassin's Code (my favorite) and Extinction Machine.
Code Zero is a slow-burner in comparison to the rest of the series, though I consider this a good thing. Maberry takes his time setting up the dominoes before he goes about blowing them to splinters. As Joe states early on in the novel, "This one started weird and stayed weird, and for most of it felt like we were swinging punches at shadows." Thus far in the series, Joe Ledger and Echo Team have tackled zombies, genetically altered super soldiers, vampires, and (maybe) alien technology. Code Zero sees our heroes fighting threats from the nightmares of their past, with an emphasis on the Seif al Din pathogen that kills and then reanimates, turning its victims into zombies.
A lot of Joe Ledger fans will consider this reason to celebrate -- I tend to find zombies boring and groan inducing and yet I can admit that Maberry has a real knack for writing them. Still, I was a little disappointed that Seif al Din would be making a return. I'm more interested in Maberry trying new things, after all this is the man that made vampires terrifying again in Assassin's Code. The combined threat keeps things spicy however, and Code Zero's big baddie is the best villain Joe has faced yet.
The following may be considered a minor spoiler. I figured out the identity of Mother Night rather early on in the novel, but if you'd prefer not to chance anything go ahead and skip the next paragraph (in italics).
Maberry develops Mother Night, the "anarchist" mastermind, over the course of the novel. Readers get to follow Mother on her descent into evil. Often the baddies of the Joe Ledger Novels come across as cartoony Bond villains. Mother, though over-the-top in true Maberry fashion, is fully developed. There are true motivations behind her actions and her story is, if not tragic, then at least unfortunate. She is the most devious enemy the DMS has ever faced and it makes for compelling reading. The development is expressed via interludes that progress the story but break up the action and pacing due to the frequency. It's a double-edge sword.
Okay, it's safe to read again! Everyone's favorite characters return, from Captain Joe Ledger (gold medalist of the Sarcasm Olympics) to his dog Ghost. Church, Aunt Sallie, Top Sims, Bunny, Doctor Rudy Sanchez, Doctor Hu, Bug, Violin, and Junie all make appearances. Being spread thin, DMS recruits some new shooters though I wouldn't bother getting attached to any of them -- by now any operators that aren't Ledger, Top, or Bunny can probably be considered red shirts). Ghost is as cute as ever and Rudy isn't nearly as annoying as I've come to expect (dios mio!) and I've even come around to liking Junie. I feel as though I judged her relationship with Joe unfairly in my review of Extinction Machine, book five. The fit between Joe and Junie is actually quite convincing and adds an unexpected layer of complication to affairs. Junie is a much needed calm-in-the-storm for Joe, a man whose fractured psyche is barely held together, a man who is growing more weary and cynical with each case.
Mother Night's reign of terror is...well, terrifying. The chaos that she and her minions unleash on America during Labor Day weekend is extensive. There were moments while reading Code Zero when I was forced to put down the book and fight cold chills. This is bio-terrorism at its worst and the body count reflects it. The action of Code Zero is somewhat understated, reflecting the slow-burner nature of the book, but it's as grisly and high-octane as ever. Given the nature of the threats that Joe Ledger faces and his training you would suspect that he'd carry along something more potent than a puny little 9mm, but aside from that the rest of the action reads right. The finale is spectacular! It's the sort of finale that begs to be played out on the big screen. The rest of the book's end, the epilogue, left a bit to be desired. After 400+ pages of buildup and an action sequence to put the rest of the series to shame, the book ends too quickly.
Minor complaints aside, Code Zero is a great addition to the Joe Ledger Novels. Joe Ledger fans are bound to love it, it's a game changer. I fully expect to see some big changes by the time Predator One, book seven, comes out next year. And with a title like Predator One, how can it not be awesome?
Nick Sharps
SF Signal
BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A new foe has resurrected old threats. With DMS already spread thin, can Joe Ledger and Echo Team end a wave of bio-terrorism that is sweeping the nation?
PROS: Best villain in the series to date, nice buildup, Joe Ledger's trademark wit, phenomenal finale, big potential changes in store for the future.
CONS: Pacing issues due to interludes.
BOTTOM LINE: The series is still going strong and Code Zero is one of the best entries yet.
Another year, another Joe Ledger Novel -- the sixth in the series to be precise. It's a series I've been following since the beginning, a series that has had its fair share of high and low points. Joe Ledger's dry wit and Jonathan Maberry's twisted imagination keep me coming back repeatedly. The Joe Ledger Novels are like 24 meets X-Files, it's like Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series rooted in science rather than mysticism. The bio-terror threats that Captain Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences face are chilling and creative. Code Zero is, in many ways, a culmination of the past five novels as well as a more direct sequel to Patient Zero (book one). Code Zero is also among the better novels in the series, ranking just below Assassin's Code (my favorite) and Extinction Machine.
Code Zero is a slow-burner in comparison to the rest of the series, though I consider this a good thing. Maberry takes his time setting up the dominoes before he goes about blowing them to splinters. As Joe states early on in the novel, "This one started weird and stayed weird, and for most of it felt like we were swinging punches at shadows." Thus far in the series, Joe Ledger and Echo Team have tackled zombies, genetically altered super soldiers, vampires, and (maybe) alien technology. Code Zero sees our heroes fighting threats from the nightmares of their past, with an emphasis on the Seif al Din pathogen that kills and then reanimates, turning its victims into zombies.
A lot of Joe Ledger fans will consider this reason to celebrate -- I tend to find zombies boring and groan inducing and yet I can admit that Maberry has a real knack for writing them. Still, I was a little disappointed that Seif al Din would be making a return. I'm more interested in Maberry trying new things, after all this is the man that made vampires terrifying again in Assassin's Code. The combined threat keeps things spicy however, and Code Zero's big baddie is the best villain Joe has faced yet.
The following may be considered a minor spoiler. I figured out the identity of Mother Night rather early on in the novel, but if you'd prefer not to chance anything go ahead and skip the next paragraph (in italics).
Maberry develops Mother Night, the "anarchist" mastermind, over the course of the novel. Readers get to follow Mother on her descent into evil. Often the baddies of the Joe Ledger Novels come across as cartoony Bond villains. Mother, though over-the-top in true Maberry fashion, is fully developed. There are true motivations behind her actions and her story is, if not tragic, then at least unfortunate. She is the most devious enemy the DMS has ever faced and it makes for compelling reading. The development is expressed via interludes that progress the story but break up the action and pacing due to the frequency. It's a double-edge sword.
Okay, it's safe to read again! Everyone's favorite characters return, from Captain Joe Ledger (gold medalist of the Sarcasm Olympics) to his dog Ghost. Church, Aunt Sallie, Top Sims, Bunny, Doctor Rudy Sanchez, Doctor Hu, Bug, Violin, and Junie all make appearances. Being spread thin, DMS recruits some new shooters though I wouldn't bother getting attached to any of them -- by now any operators that aren't Ledger, Top, or Bunny can probably be considered red shirts). Ghost is as cute as ever and Rudy isn't nearly as annoying as I've come to expect (dios mio!) and I've even come around to liking Junie. I feel as though I judged her relationship with Joe unfairly in my review of Extinction Machine, book five. The fit between Joe and Junie is actually quite convincing and adds an unexpected layer of complication to affairs. Junie is a much needed calm-in-the-storm for Joe, a man whose fractured psyche is barely held together, a man who is growing more weary and cynical with each case.
Mother Night's reign of terror is...well, terrifying. The chaos that she and her minions unleash on America during Labor Day weekend is extensive. There were moments while reading Code Zero when I was forced to put down the book and fight cold chills. This is bio-terrorism at its worst and the body count reflects it. The action of Code Zero is somewhat understated, reflecting the slow-burner nature of the book, but it's as grisly and high-octane as ever. Given the nature of the threats that Joe Ledger faces and his training you would suspect that he'd carry along something more potent than a puny little 9mm, but aside from that the rest of the action reads right. The finale is spectacular! It's the sort of finale that begs to be played out on the big screen. The rest of the book's end, the epilogue, left a bit to be desired. After 400+ pages of buildup and an action sequence to put the rest of the series to shame, the book ends too quickly.
Minor complaints aside, Code Zero is a great addition to the Joe Ledger Novels. Joe Ledger fans are bound to love it, it's a game changer. I fully expect to see some big changes by the time Predator One, book seven, comes out next year. And with a title like Predator One, how can it not be awesome?
Nick Sharps
SF Signal
December 18, 2024
Audiobook (16 hours) narrated by the
The narration is excellent, as always, and the audio is without flaws.
This one starts a bit slow with a lot of explanation and build up. There's also a great deal of character work and relationships, which is good to see at this stage in the series. The characters are growing and changing, as are the relationships. Jonathan Maberry does a better than great job at continuing to build on the characters we know, while also creating new characters and allowing them to mingle and effect things as if this were a life simulation.
The five stars for Code Zero is specifically for the cosplay event. One of the best, no actually the best cosplay event that I have seen in fiction. It is my dream to one day see this played out on a screen. This series would be an incredible additional to AMC, or any catalogue that is willing to give it the attention that it deserves. So much good.
Speaking of good, Mother Night, am I right? 🤌🏼
The narration is excellent, as always, and the audio is without flaws.
This one starts a bit slow with a lot of explanation and build up. There's also a great deal of character work and relationships, which is good to see at this stage in the series. The characters are growing and changing, as are the relationships. Jonathan Maberry does a better than great job at continuing to build on the characters we know, while also creating new characters and allowing them to mingle and effect things as if this were a life simulation.
The five stars for Code Zero is specifically for the cosplay event. One of the best, no actually the best cosplay event that I have seen in fiction. It is my dream to one day see this played out on a screen. This series would be an incredible additional to AMC, or any catalogue that is willing to give it the attention that it deserves. So much good.
Speaking of good, Mother Night, am I right? 🤌🏼
May 20, 2021
10/15/2020 Notes:
- Rating Raised from 3.5 to 4 Stars
- Mother Night: Eh, I have some trouble believing in how someone like her made it into DMS but that's just one of the plot holes you have to ignore in the series.
- Great action, love the DMS crew and Church really needs to shed some of his mysticism. Then again, I like that he's so mysterious. =)
- Rating Raised from 3.5 to 4 Stars
- Mother Night: Eh, I have some trouble believing in how someone like her made it into DMS but that's just one of the plot holes you have to ignore in the series.
- Great action, love the DMS crew and Church really needs to shed some of his mysticism. Then again, I like that he's so mysterious. =)
May 1, 2019
They're back! And so is Joe. Another killer edition to the series.
August 25, 2016
If you’ve been wondering what Joe Ledger and his team have been up to, wonder no longer, because the new book in this fantastic series, CODE ZERO, is here! First of all, Joe is happier than he’s been in a long while. Junie Flynn’s cancer is being treated with experimental drugs, and he’s most definitely in love with her, so he now certainly has something good to go home to. Unfortunately, when he goes to question a man named Reggie Boyd, who works for DARPA and has been selling secrets, the kind of secrets that can get people killed. DARPA is supposed to keep us safe, and a software package called VaultBreaker is at the forefront of helping to stop terrorists from shutting us down. If it gets into the wrong hands, it could be devastating. It looks like Reggie was approached by a woman calling herself Mother Night, who leads a team of cyberhackers from China, North Korea, and Iran. Soon, acts of terrorism start popping up all over the country, and innocent people are getting hurt, and dying. At the core is Mother Night, and her army of disenfranchised youth that are eager to please her, and do anything for her. However, all this isn’t just to cause chaos and panic, although for Mother Night, it’s just icing, but she’s got something up her diabolical sleeve. A very dangerous auction is about to take place, and extremists in numerous countries are preparing their bids. Mother Night is also sending out millions of Trojan Horse viruses, infecting untold numbers of computers.
By this time, Joe has already been attacked by a mob of young men and women bent on murder, and as the acts of terrorism build, he’s tasked with screening new recruits, since the DMS is stretched pretty thin. Unfortunately, out of over 90 hopefuls, only a handful are measuring up to DMS standards, and they need all the help they can get. It doesn’t help that Church wants Joe to roll the new recruits out immediately, without Joe’s preferred three weeks of additional training. All in a day’s work for Joe, right? In addition, the Berserkers have made an appearance again, after Joe and his team thought they’d eradicated the last of them. And, after all, this is the direct sequel to Patient Zero, so of course the horrible plague that played a huge part in that book will certainly be back in play in Code Zero.
If you think Joe has dealt with some weird shit in the past, well, he has, but Code Zero hit 11 on the scare meter for me, because there are a lot of bioweapons being thrown around by Mother Night’s minions and this stuff, at least to me, is dizzyingly terrifying. In fact, it’s so terrifying, that Joe, who has always had to fight the three distinct personalities taking up space in his head, is finding that the Warrior wants desperately to find Mother Night and do horrible things to her for the terror and chaos that she’s wrought. So, I suppose an important question for Joe and crew is just who is Mother Night. The author lets you in on that early on, and it’s a fascinating look into the making of a villain, and Night’s complexity and motives make the progression into utter mayhem even more chilling.
Also, if you thought you’d seen the last of the repugnant Vice President Collins, think again. He’s still around and bent on taking over the Presidency. He’ll do anything to do that, and if it includes bringing down Church and the DMS, that’s just icing for him. He’s into this mess up to his neck, and if he can’t gain the Presidency, the power he can gain from working with Mother Night will do just fine.
Now, if I keep going, I’m going to let something slip and spoil the great, rollicking, violent fun that is CODE ZERO, but suffice it to say, fans of Joe Ledger won’t be disappointed, and also, new readers could jump into this one with no problem. Even though it’s a direct sequel to PATIENT ZERO and the 6th in a series, it’s rather nicely self-contained and Maberry gives enough background that you won’t feel lost. However, I firmly believe in starting with Book 1 if you haven’t read them, only so that events will resonate more strongly with the reader (plus, they’re all awesome.) I will say, though, that in terms of Joe’s mental state, CODE ZERO is the toughest on him yet. Fighting the Killer is becoming harder and harder, and faced with an enemy like Mother Night, who is as brilliant as she is cunning and ruthless, he’s very much starting to worry about the state of his psyche. CODE ZERO is written in the same nail biting countdown style as most of the series, and it races toward a spectacular stunner of an ending. It’s a game changer for Joe, and it’ll knock your socks off. If you think that CODE ZERO is just a kick ass adventure novel, it is, but it’s so much more. It’s about good vs. evil, a nation’s loss of innocence, and our ability to rise above what attempts to tear us down. Heavy stuff, indeed, but roll it up in Maberry’s signature brand of nerve-wracking prose and high-stakes situations, and you’ve got one excellent package. Don’t miss this one. Hell, if you haven’t discovered this series, what are you waiting for?
April 10, 2014
I always get giddy with anticipation whenever a new entry in Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series comes out. That’s because I know what awaits: an over-the-top, exciting, action-packed thrill ride that always leaves me on the edge of my seat. Code Zero, the latest in the series, is no exception. It easily fulfilled all of my [already high] expectations.
My reaction summed up in three words: I loved it.
Code Zero has earned a top-three spot in my rankings of the novels in the series. So it’s up there with Patient Zero (the first) and Assassin’s Code (the fourth). It’s billed as a direct sequel to Patient Zero, with a return of the zombie virus from that novel. But it’s really a greatest hits, so to speak. Quite a few past threats rear their ugly heads here. The villain, Mother Night, is perhaps the best one Mr. Maberry has created to date. It’s not a real mystery as to her true identity; that much is pretty obvious from early on. What’s so compelling about her is the why. She’s a very complex character and is even quite tragic.
The novel pretty much follows the same formula as the other entries in the series, which is a good thing. We have Joe Ledger leading his Echo team into impossible situations as they try to save the world. And the situations keep piling on top of each other, getting progressively worse as the story goes along. (Thankfully, there is less of Rudy in this outing. Don’t get me wrong; I like Rudy overall. But there’s only so much I can read him exclaim dios mio! before my eyes start involuntarily rolling.)
So yes, I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes action/horror/adventure books. Even though he is good at providing enough background information for a new reader to jump on in, I do recommend that you start with Patient Zero and work your way through the series in order. Some are very good, others are excellent, all are very enjoyable.
My reaction summed up in three words: I loved it.
Code Zero has earned a top-three spot in my rankings of the novels in the series. So it’s up there with Patient Zero (the first) and Assassin’s Code (the fourth). It’s billed as a direct sequel to Patient Zero, with a return of the zombie virus from that novel. But it’s really a greatest hits, so to speak. Quite a few past threats rear their ugly heads here. The villain, Mother Night, is perhaps the best one Mr. Maberry has created to date. It’s not a real mystery as to her true identity; that much is pretty obvious from early on. What’s so compelling about her is the why. She’s a very complex character and is even quite tragic.
The novel pretty much follows the same formula as the other entries in the series, which is a good thing. We have Joe Ledger leading his Echo team into impossible situations as they try to save the world. And the situations keep piling on top of each other, getting progressively worse as the story goes along. (Thankfully, there is less of Rudy in this outing. Don’t get me wrong; I like Rudy overall. But there’s only so much I can read him exclaim dios mio! before my eyes start involuntarily rolling.)
So yes, I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes action/horror/adventure books. Even though he is good at providing enough background information for a new reader to jump on in, I do recommend that you start with Patient Zero and work your way through the series in order. Some are very good, others are excellent, all are very enjoyable.
December 2, 2015
Of the Joe Ledger books by Jonathan Mayberry, I think this may be the weakest novel thus far. There are several issues. The first is the timeline of events encountered with the Bliss flashbacks that were either four or six years in the past. While Mayberry does like to incorporate flashbacks, it did not work well here.
Second, there was not enough Joe. Joe is a fantastic character and that's why I'm reading the books. Maberry's writing style is to move the POV from Joe to the other threads of the overarching story, but in this book, I felt that the story spent a lot more time on Bliss and Mother Night. Maybe it was needed to set up the villain. Unfortunately, there just wasn't pay-off for this book's villain as there has been in the other books.
Third, certain characters are introduced and vanish for most or all of the rest of the book. For example, Junie is back but quickly drops off as does Violin. With Violin, she just shows back up and there is no explanation how she arrived back in the story at an most opportune time. There does not seem to be the right balance between the characters this time around. I think Maberry has hit the mark in the other books, just not here.
This had bioterrorism elements that we have seen in a few of the prior books should have built into a phenomenal central conflict, but in my opinion, it didn't. Honestly, I struggled with this installment and it took much longer for me to read and I felt I did not connect with the story. I hope the next Ledger book is better by centering more on Joe, who is the foundation and strength of the series.
Second, there was not enough Joe. Joe is a fantastic character and that's why I'm reading the books. Maberry's writing style is to move the POV from Joe to the other threads of the overarching story, but in this book, I felt that the story spent a lot more time on Bliss and Mother Night. Maybe it was needed to set up the villain. Unfortunately, there just wasn't pay-off for this book's villain as there has been in the other books.
Third, certain characters are introduced and vanish for most or all of the rest of the book. For example, Junie is back but quickly drops off as does Violin. With Violin, she just shows back up and there is no explanation how she arrived back in the story at an most opportune time. There does not seem to be the right balance between the characters this time around. I think Maberry has hit the mark in the other books, just not here.
This had bioterrorism elements that we have seen in a few of the prior books should have built into a phenomenal central conflict, but in my opinion, it didn't. Honestly, I struggled with this installment and it took much longer for me to read and I felt I did not connect with the story. I hope the next Ledger book is better by centering more on Joe, who is the foundation and strength of the series.
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March 5, 2016Continues the adventures of the DMS and Joe Ledger. Interesting merging of Maberry's worlds: lots of gamer and comic references this time around.
November 23, 2021
I can't even begin to explain what a rollercoaster of a book this was. My emotions were all over the place. This is also the first book in this series where I felt real emotions towards the "bad guy."
There were some scenes in this book where my emotion flip flopped at least 4 times in a couple minutes. I was so blissfully happy for about 1.67 minutes towards the end of this book before I had the rug pulled out on me by Mr. Maberry once again. Throughout this book, I was also very scared that I was going to lose some of the Echo team members I have grown to really care about.
As many have said, the narrator, Ray Porter, is Joe Ledger for me. Sometimes when I hear him narrate other books. I think, "Hey, that's Joe Ledger!"
All I can say is Best. Joe. Ledger. Book. So Far.
There were some scenes in this book where my emotion flip flopped at least 4 times in a couple minutes. I was so blissfully happy for about 1.67 minutes towards the end of this book before I had the rug pulled out on me by Mr. Maberry once again. Throughout this book, I was also very scared that I was going to lose some of the Echo team members I have grown to really care about.
As many have said, the narrator, Ray Porter, is Joe Ledger for me. Sometimes when I hear him narrate other books. I think, "Hey, that's Joe Ledger!"
All I can say is Best. Joe. Ledger. Book. So Far.
January 15, 2015
I waited a couple of months to read this installment of the Joe Ledger series. I find that if I wait I don't forget much of the previous book because they are way too memorable for that. So I finally decided to get cracking on book 6 as a buddy read with a couple of friends. I have to say, it was definitely time to read it. This one is by far my favorite of the bunch. And if I could rate it 10 stars I would.
This one is a sequel to Patient zero, you got it, the zombies are back. The team has to shut them down, and their leader. She calls herself Mother Night. She is one heck of a Super Villain. She wreaks havoc all over the world spreading bio warfare everywhere she goes along with her small group of followers like she is having a party and she invited the whole world.
This book was packed with heart stopping action and excitement at the turn of every page. I was totally immersed in this story. The imagery, plot, ideas, and characters were all amazing. I loved how Maberry wrote Mother Night in all her glory and viciousness. I also found myself figuring things out and then going back and doubting my previous ideas. Maberry knows how to keep his readers on their toes, not to mention the edge of their seats.
The characters of course are my favorite part of this series. They are developed beautifully, none are created as perfect individuals. All of them are flawed with their own demons which in turn pushes them to keep on fighting for the greater good. My favorite of course is Joe, and through this series I just love him more and more. One of things I like the best about Joe and his team is that no matter the subject they always puts in 100% towards everything, their job, their friends, the team and the task at hand. And with each effort the scars get bigger and bigger and I find that it make him and the team more realistic and believable.
I can't recommend this book enough, this whole series. I think everyone should read it because there is something for everyone to enjoy. Trust me when I say I don't like books on politics, or terrorism, or war, but if Maberry can write something like this in a way that can make me enjoy reading about all of it, then he has something great going on.
Don't battle with Monsters, lest you become a monster.
This one is a sequel to Patient zero, you got it, the zombies are back. The team has to shut them down, and their leader. She calls herself Mother Night. She is one heck of a Super Villain. She wreaks havoc all over the world spreading bio warfare everywhere she goes along with her small group of followers like she is having a party and she invited the whole world.
This book was packed with heart stopping action and excitement at the turn of every page. I was totally immersed in this story. The imagery, plot, ideas, and characters were all amazing. I loved how Maberry wrote Mother Night in all her glory and viciousness. I also found myself figuring things out and then going back and doubting my previous ideas. Maberry knows how to keep his readers on their toes, not to mention the edge of their seats.
The characters of course are my favorite part of this series. They are developed beautifully, none are created as perfect individuals. All of them are flawed with their own demons which in turn pushes them to keep on fighting for the greater good. My favorite of course is Joe, and through this series I just love him more and more. One of things I like the best about Joe and his team is that no matter the subject they always puts in 100% towards everything, their job, their friends, the team and the task at hand. And with each effort the scars get bigger and bigger and I find that it make him and the team more realistic and believable.
I can't recommend this book enough, this whole series. I think everyone should read it because there is something for everyone to enjoy. Trust me when I say I don't like books on politics, or terrorism, or war, but if Maberry can write something like this in a way that can make me enjoy reading about all of it, then he has something great going on.
Don't battle with Monsters, lest you become a monster.
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December 22, 2015Mayberry is a writer I only discovered in the past year. I can't believe it took me til age 56 to find him, considering that I've been reading Stephen King and other horror authors since I was a teen.
Joe Ledger is a former cop who, due to his proficiency in a number of languages, was sent to help Homeland Security by listening in on conversations over the airwaves in other languages to spot key words that could help stop terrorists. He is hand-picked by his new mysterious boss, whose name none of the characters seem know, and who appears to have a lot of pull with government officials. Little does Joe know what he's in for!
I can't really tell you much more about the job Joe is hired to do without giving too much away. But I can say that Maberry filled this series with lots of excitement, twists and turns, horror, and (thanks to Ledger's strange sense of humor), quite a few snickers and some outright laughs.
There are (so far... and unsure if there will be more) 6 novels in this series, not including a Prequil, some "in-between" novella, and a book that appears to be about Joe himself, which I have not yet read. I have read all but the last and found it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to put my ereader down, not even to sleep!
I highly recommend this series to adults who enjoy books with lots of action, twists, turns, horrors, surprises, and that keep on giving, page after page. Maberry never seems to have any slow moments in his writing, which is exactly how I like it!
Joe Ledger is a former cop who, due to his proficiency in a number of languages, was sent to help Homeland Security by listening in on conversations over the airwaves in other languages to spot key words that could help stop terrorists. He is hand-picked by his new mysterious boss, whose name none of the characters seem know, and who appears to have a lot of pull with government officials. Little does Joe know what he's in for!
I can't really tell you much more about the job Joe is hired to do without giving too much away. But I can say that Maberry filled this series with lots of excitement, twists and turns, horror, and (thanks to Ledger's strange sense of humor), quite a few snickers and some outright laughs.
There are (so far... and unsure if there will be more) 6 novels in this series, not including a Prequil, some "in-between" novella, and a book that appears to be about Joe himself, which I have not yet read. I have read all but the last and found it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to put my ereader down, not even to sleep!
I highly recommend this series to adults who enjoy books with lots of action, twists, turns, horrors, surprises, and that keep on giving, page after page. Maberry never seems to have any slow moments in his writing, which is exactly how I like it!
March 26, 2020
I love Joe Ledger, so I loved this. Maberry maintains excellent connections between the books in the series, but this one was really special since it harkened back to the first book and the zombie plague that initially introduced us to Joe. I don't know why I hated this villain so much, but I did. I hated her more than any of the other foes Joe has faced, but I did. I thought maybe it was because she switched sides, but so did Hugo Vox. Maybe it was because of her detached attitude about it all, as though it was some sort of science experiment. I don't know, but I wanted that bitch to DIE!
Another thing that made me a little sad was the ending of Violin's affair with Joe. Junie seems really nice, but I just picture Violin as being a better match for Joe, being a ruthless killer herself. Maybe Joe needs Junie's sunshiney hippiesh vibe more than someone he can trade tips on kill shots with. Anyway, we'll see how it goes as these two girls are apparently becoming friends. Highly recommended!
Another thing that made me a little sad was the ending of Violin's affair with Joe. Junie seems really nice, but I just picture Violin as being a better match for Joe, being a ruthless killer herself. Maybe Joe needs Junie's sunshiney hippiesh vibe more than someone he can trade tips on kill shots with. Anyway, we'll see how it goes as these two girls are apparently becoming friends. Highly recommended!
May 17, 2015
In this sixth novel of the Joe Ledger series, a bizarre chain of violence is unleashed across the U.S., and at first, Joe and DMS suspects a new threat is at hand, one who appeals to anarchists wanting a voice. But then Mother Night shows her true intentions when she gains access to The Locker, where the world's deadliest bioweapons are stored. Can Joe and Echo Team find and stop this deadly cyber terrorist before she finishes what began in the first Ledger novel, PATIENT ZERO? But her true intentions are far more horrifying.
Taut, razor sharp, chilling and full of heart and humor, this is masterful storytelling at its best. Highly recommended!
Taut, razor sharp, chilling and full of heart and humor, this is masterful storytelling at its best. Highly recommended!
October 12, 2021
I thought this was actually a step back from the last novel. The villain in particular felt like they came out of nowhere. This is true of some additional side characters as well. This feeling of coming out of left field deadens any emotional impact of the events that occur in the novel. Oddly I actually thought the villain in this one was the most implausible.
August 4, 2018
This book is amazing. Of all the Joe Ledger novels, this one has been my favorite so far. The villain is terrific. It is both hopeful and heartbreaking. This series of books just keeps getting better.
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