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Joe Ledger
Joe Ledger: Unbreakable
Joe Ledger fans rejoice! Ledger returns with more dynamic adventures with his friends in the industry. 16 adventures edited by Jonathan Maberry and Bryan Thomas Schmidt.
Joe Unbreakable presents 15 all new stories and a bonus reprint by New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry starring Joe Ledger, Top, Bunny, Lydia, Church, and all your favorites from the Department of Military Sciences and Rogue Team International. Powerful edge-of-your-seat adventures by Kevin J. Anderson, John G. Hartness, Scott Sigler, Dana Fredsti, Wayne Brady & Maurice Broaddus, Tori Eldridge, Kevin Ikenberry, Heather Graham, Ray Porter, Kat Richardson, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Marie Whittaker, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Peter Clines, and Maberry himself. Includes a brand new interview about the evolution of Ledger with Jonathan Maberry and Ray Porter (the voice of Joe Ledger).
From his early days as a Baltimore cop to his time with the Department of Military Sciences and then more recently leading Rogue Team International, these stories cover the range of the Ledger timeline bringing back old favorites and introducing new ones. The stakes are as high as ever, and Joe Ledger is there to save the day!
Contents:
Surf's Up
Kevin J. Anderson
The Side of Angels A Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter/Joe Ledger Adventure
John G. Hartness
Little Murder Machine
Scott Sigler
Busman's Holiday A Spawn of Lilith/Joe Ledger Adventure
Dana Fredsti
Top of the Morning A Naz Scott/Top Sims Adventure
Wayne Brady & Maurice Broaddus
Ninja Echo Charlie Mike A Lily Wong & Echo Team Adventure
Tori Eldridge
True Friends
Kevin Ikenberry
Ghost of a Chance A Krewe of Hunters/Joe Ledger Adventure
Heather Graham
Bug Hunt
Jonathan Maberry
A Long Ride off a Short Track
Ray Porter
Chasing Chimera
Kat Richardson
Another Dead Body on the Corner
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Pretty Girls A Tommy & Arklight Adventure
Marie Whittaker
Dogwatch A John Simon/Joe Ledger Adventure
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Crossover Story A Threshold/Joe Ledger Adventure
Peter Clines
We Wear the Masks
Jonathan Maberry
Joe Unbreakable presents 15 all new stories and a bonus reprint by New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry starring Joe Ledger, Top, Bunny, Lydia, Church, and all your favorites from the Department of Military Sciences and Rogue Team International. Powerful edge-of-your-seat adventures by Kevin J. Anderson, John G. Hartness, Scott Sigler, Dana Fredsti, Wayne Brady & Maurice Broaddus, Tori Eldridge, Kevin Ikenberry, Heather Graham, Ray Porter, Kat Richardson, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Marie Whittaker, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Peter Clines, and Maberry himself. Includes a brand new interview about the evolution of Ledger with Jonathan Maberry and Ray Porter (the voice of Joe Ledger).
From his early days as a Baltimore cop to his time with the Department of Military Sciences and then more recently leading Rogue Team International, these stories cover the range of the Ledger timeline bringing back old favorites and introducing new ones. The stakes are as high as ever, and Joe Ledger is there to save the day!
Contents:
Surf's Up
Kevin J. Anderson
The Side of Angels A Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter/Joe Ledger Adventure
John G. Hartness
Little Murder Machine
Scott Sigler
Busman's Holiday A Spawn of Lilith/Joe Ledger Adventure
Dana Fredsti
Top of the Morning A Naz Scott/Top Sims Adventure
Wayne Brady & Maurice Broaddus
Ninja Echo Charlie Mike A Lily Wong & Echo Team Adventure
Tori Eldridge
True Friends
Kevin Ikenberry
Ghost of a Chance A Krewe of Hunters/Joe Ledger Adventure
Heather Graham
Bug Hunt
Jonathan Maberry
A Long Ride off a Short Track
Ray Porter
Chasing Chimera
Kat Richardson
Another Dead Body on the Corner
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Pretty Girls A Tommy & Arklight Adventure
Marie Whittaker
Dogwatch A John Simon/Joe Ledger Adventure
Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Crossover Story A Threshold/Joe Ledger Adventure
Peter Clines
We Wear the Masks
Jonathan Maberry
314 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2023
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About the author
Jonathan Maberry
524 books7,800 followersJONATHAN MABERRY is a NYTimes bestselling author, #1 Audible bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, comic book writer, and producer. He is the author of more than 50 novels, 190 short stories, 16 short story collections, 30 graphic novels, 14 nonfiction books, and has edited 26 anthologies. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-WARS, was a Netflix original series starring Ian Somerhalder. His 2009-10 run as writer on the Black Panther comic formed a large chunk of the recent blockbuster film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. His bestselling YA zombie series, Rot & Ruin is in development for film at Alcon Entertainment; and John Wick director, Chad Stahelski, is developing Jonathan’s Joe Ledger Thrillers for TV. Jonathan writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, and action; and he writes for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include The Pine Deep Trilogy, The Kagen the Damned Trilogy, NecroTek, Ink, Glimpse, the Rot & Ruin series, the Dead of Night series, The Wolfman, X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate, The Sleepers War (with Weston Ochse), Mars One, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, The X-Files, Aliens: Bug Hunt, Out of Tune, Don’t Turn out the Lights: A Tribute to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, Shadows & Verse, and others. His comics include Marvel Zombies Return, The Punisher: Naked Kills, Wolverine: Ghosts, Godzilla vs Cthulhu: Death May Die, Bad Blood and many others. Jonathan has written in many popular licensed worlds, including Hellboy, True Blood, The Wolfman, John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, C.H.U.D., Diablo IV, Deadlands, World of Warcraft, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, Predator, Karl Kolchak, and many others. He the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers, and the editor of Weird Tales Magazine. He lives in San Diego, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com
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September 18, 2024
Probably the weakest collection of stories from the Joe Ledger universe, but the stories do, for the most part, improve the deeper the reader gets into the book.
The first few stories are...well, they go from ridiculous (Ledger's cat and "dumb dog") to the utterly preachy (Wayne Brady is a brilliant comedian, but the story in here was like being yelled at for twenty minutes).
Here's the thing...I come to a Maberry book because Maberry writes with a certain quality. If he's getting a point across, he's never preachy, and he recognizes the grey between the black and white. He also never gets ridiculous. He says in the interview at the end that he'll use "nine truths to sell one lie" and he's not exaggerating. So, there's a quality to a Maberry story, evident in the two he pens for this collection, that virtually no other author can replicate.
Which is fine. Every author has their own style, as they should. So, this collection has authors who often seem to use their own style, but hybrid it into some sort of "writing in the style of Jonathan Maberry" and it mostly doesn't work, or they stick to their own style which has no place in the carefully crafted universe Maberry's created.
If there's one more story that grabbed me, it was, surprisingly, the one by narrator Ray Porter. It comes the closest to capturing the emotional tone of the Ledger novels.
I know there's likely two big reasons to put together a collection like this. The first is, Maberry gets to let other authors play in his sandbox, which is fine, why not? The second, unspoken reason, I'm sure, is to entice readers over to those other authors' works.
Of all the authors presented here, there's truly only one that grabbed me enough to consider looking at his books, and that's Peter Cline.
The rest? Nah.
A mostly unnecessary addition to the Maberry universe.
The first few stories are...well, they go from ridiculous (Ledger's cat and "dumb dog") to the utterly preachy (Wayne Brady is a brilliant comedian, but the story in here was like being yelled at for twenty minutes).
Here's the thing...I come to a Maberry book because Maberry writes with a certain quality. If he's getting a point across, he's never preachy, and he recognizes the grey between the black and white. He also never gets ridiculous. He says in the interview at the end that he'll use "nine truths to sell one lie" and he's not exaggerating. So, there's a quality to a Maberry story, evident in the two he pens for this collection, that virtually no other author can replicate.
Which is fine. Every author has their own style, as they should. So, this collection has authors who often seem to use their own style, but hybrid it into some sort of "writing in the style of Jonathan Maberry" and it mostly doesn't work, or they stick to their own style which has no place in the carefully crafted universe Maberry's created.
If there's one more story that grabbed me, it was, surprisingly, the one by narrator Ray Porter. It comes the closest to capturing the emotional tone of the Ledger novels.
I know there's likely two big reasons to put together a collection like this. The first is, Maberry gets to let other authors play in his sandbox, which is fine, why not? The second, unspoken reason, I'm sure, is to entice readers over to those other authors' works.
Of all the authors presented here, there's truly only one that grabbed me enough to consider looking at his books, and that's Peter Cline.
The rest? Nah.
A mostly unnecessary addition to the Maberry universe.
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