Understand, if you’re not a writer this is a serious cry for help. Suddenly two characters started having a conversation in my head. I was going over notes for a nonfiction book I was writing for Citadel Press (ZOMBIE CSU: THE FORENSICS OF THE LIVING DEAD). I was in a diner near where I used to live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. My answer to that might sound like it contradicts my earlier statement about not sharing his psychosis. While Joe struggles with the paradox of having to kill people in order to save people, we genuinely feel his pain. He’ll even get a three-issue guest spot in my V-WARS comic book (which launches from IDW in May). And there’s a collection of Ledger short stories coming up in April-JOE LEDGER: SPECIAL OPS. I’m writing the seventh, PREDATOR ONE, and we just sold an eighth, KILL SWITCH. CODE ZERO is the sixth Ledger novel to be published. And I love painting him into a corner just to see how he gets out. Even though I plot my books out, Joe tends to go off on tangents. But he also has a lot of other qualities, some of which surprise me because they show up during the writing. He has some of my personal background (though I don’t share his psychosis), and he has my morals and smartass sense of humor. The guy’s got some serious fighting skills, a strict moral code, and a biting sense of humor. It’s easy to see why your fans clamor for more Joe Ledger books. Jonathan took some time to talk about his latest book, CODE ZERO, and his prolific writing career. He teaches Experimental Writing for Teens, is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse, and co-founder of The Liars Club. Two of his novels are in development for film, and another for TV. Besides the Joe Ledger thrillers, he also writes the Rot & Ruin series, the Nightsiders series, the Dead of Night series, and the Watch Over Me series as well as the monthly comics V-WARS and ROT & RUIN. He’s a New York Times bestselling author of eighteen novels and a four-time Bram Stoker Award winner. Switching gears has worked very well for Jonathan Maberry, who has written everything from plays to comic books to greeting cards. Can Joe Ledger stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from turning the Land of the Free into a land of the dead? Within days there are outbreaks of mass slaughter and murderous insanity across the American heartland. 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. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world’s most secure facility. In CODE ZERO, the Department of Military Sciences has been fighting for years 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. Maberry is a master at weaving complex, yet tightly woven stories that are full of larger-than-life characters, fascinating science, and the vilest villains. Just try to take a breath while reading CODE ZERO, Jonathan Maberry’s latest novel in the Joe Ledger series, a high-octane suspense thriller that pulls you in from start to finish and never lets up on the action.
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