Patient Zero

Product Description From multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry comes a major new thriller that combines the best of the New York Times bestselling books World War Z by Max Brooks and James Rollins's Sigma Force Series to kick off the start of a new series featuring Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences (DMS). When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills -- and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective who has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new task force created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid-response group is called the Department of Military Sciences, or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. Review Patient Zero is high-octane excitement from beginning to end, and the start of a fabulous new series. Joe Ledger and the DMS have my vote as the team to beat when combating terrorist threats on a grand scale. Jonathan Maberry has struck upon gold, a perfect blend of military thriller and science-based horror. I think fans are going to eat it up! --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of First Blood and CreepersA dark, chilling and funny thriller about zombies. . . The book is as fun and funny as it is chilling and thrill-packed. Joe is a fantastic character, full of compassion, real vulnerabilities and a deliciously dark sense of humor. An immensely entertaining package. --Kirkus Reviews[An] exciting thriller. . . Plenty of man-to-zombie combat, a team traitor and a doomsday scenario add up to a fast and furious read. --Publishers Weekly About the Author JONATHAN MABERRY is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Ghost Road Blues, the first of a trilogy of thrillers with a supernatural bite. A professional writer and writing teacher, he has sold more than 1,100 articles, seventeen nonfiction books, six novels, and two plays. He was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 2004 largely because of his extensive writings in that field.