PATIENT ZERO: A first-rate thriller with a bioterror angle

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.

Meet Joe Ledger, who with a little help from the DMS (Department of Military Sciences), is the only man who can save us when a terrorist organization figures out a way to create a plague that will turn people into zombies. This is the terrifying world of PATIENT ZERO (St. Martin’s Griffin; March 2009; $14.95;ISBN 0-312-38285-5), JONATHAN MABERRY’S new heart racing, gripping, and eerily brilliant novel.

Joe Ledger is a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce – the DMS – created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can’t handle. Joe’s 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. And this is only his first mission. Kicking off the start of a new series featuring Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences, PATIENT ZERO begs the question, how do we survive when your chances are zero? About the Author: JONATHAN MABERRY is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, teacher, and since 1979 has sold more than 1100 articles, seventeen nonfiction books, six novels, as well as short stories, poetry, song lyrics, video scripts, and two plays. In 2004, Jonathan was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame largely because of his extensive writings in that field.

Praise for PATIENT ZERO “Brilliant, shocking, horrifying, it puts the terror back in terrorist.”
– James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Judas Strain

“Terrifyingly terrific! PATIENT ZERO has you holding to the edge of your seat and begging for more!”
–Sherrilyn Kenyon #1 NYT Bestselling Author of the Dark-Hunter series.

“I had a fine old time reading PATIENT ZERO…while the action is heated, violent, and furious, the writing remains cool, steady, and low-key.”
- Peter Straub, New York Times Bestselling author

“Scary, creepy, and gripping – PATIENT ZERO is ‘Night of the Living Dead’ meets Michael Crichton.”
–Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Power Play

“PATIENT ZERO is a first-rate thriller with a bioterror angle that is as horrific as it is plausible. Maberry’s prose sears, his dialog cuts like a knife, and his characters crackle with life. Joe Ledger rules.”
–Douglas Preston, co-author of The Wheel of Darkness and The Book of the Dead

“This is the coolest book I’ve read since discovering Covert One. With this new series, Jonathan Maberry becomes my generation’s Robert Ludlum. Joe Ledger is a hero for the new millennium – tough as nails, sharp as a whip, and up for anything. He’s a man who puts honor before his own self-preservation, who rides the edges and isn’t afraid to go down fighting. The story is absolutely riveting, and the scariest concept to come down the pike in a long while. I want Ledger to fight all my battles. I dare you to put this book down before the endgame plays out. I dare you.”
– JT Ellison, Author of critically acclaimed Taylor Jackson series, including 14 and Judas Kiss

“This time Maberry has outdone himself with a deliciously diabolical plot and bone-chilling scenarios that keep you riveted to every page. Brutal action, insanely intelligent, and so real that the hair on the back of your neck stands up!”
- L.A. Banks, The Vampire Huntress Legends Series, New York Times Best-selling Author