Wears an eyepatch and walks with a cane due to injuries sustained in Extinction Machine. He is a religious man and gets recruited into the DMS. Rudolfo Ernesto 'Rudy' Sanchez y Martinez: Joe's psychiatrist and best friend. Second Lieutenant Oliver 'Ollie' 'Scarface' Brown Master Sergeant Harvey 'Bunny' 'Jolly Green Giant' RabbitĬhief Petty Officer Samuel 'Skip' 'Joker' Tyler Noted to be a very good hand-to-hand fighter.įirst Sergeant Bradley 'Top' 'Sgt. Suggested policemen Pete Smith and Brenden Tate for recruitment into Echo Team. Joined the team in Dogs of War and was directly recruited by Top and Bunny. Tracy Cole: Former policewoman, call sign 'Gorgon'.Harvey 'Bunny' Rabbit: Former Force Recon, call sign 'Green Giant'.Lost his son Henry while his daughter Monique lost both legs during the War in Iraq. First Sergeant Bradley 'Top' Sims: Call sign, 'Sergeant Rock', former Army Ranger.These professions have helped him control his rage issues following the rape of his ex-girlfriend Helen in high school, who ultimately committed suicide. Before being recruited by the DMS, he was a detective for the Baltimore Police Department and a former U.S.

Captain Joseph Edwin 'Joe' Ledger: Call sign 'Cowboy'.

All power is taken down, new assassins arise, the light is gone.

New age of High Tech killing machines: the battlefield is everywhere.

Worst case scenario: Zombies, mutants, plagues, vampires, and tech.

Alien Technology: the Truth is out there.

Vampires are real and emerging from their ancient catacombs.

The group that steers the world to their whim: A new King of Plagues has a plan.

Genetic experiments and Nazi scientists: countdown to Doomsday.

Intro Joe Ledger, welcome to the DMS: zombie Outbreak incoming.

Threats encountered throughout the series range from designer pathogens that create zombies to transgenics used for ethnic cleansing. The DMS is a shadow agency formed for the purpose of pursuing technologically advanced threats to the US and the world at large by terrorists.

Joe is hired by a clandestine, investigative agency known as the Department of Military Sciences (DMS). The series follows the titular Captain Joe Ledger, a former Army Ranger and Baltimore police detective. The first three books in the series were optioned for a potential television series on ABC and a pilot was written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach. The series also includes several short stories, audio originals and novellas. Joe Ledger is the name of an ongoing series of bio-terrorism thriller books written by Jonathan Maberry, beginning with the 2009 Patient Zero. Science fiction, War novel, Military fiction, thriller

Extinction Machine by Jonathan Maberry