Jonathan Maberry

Having protected the world from a zombie plague in PATIENT ZERO, Joe Ledger and his crack Department of Special Sciences combat team are thrown into an even more frightening crisis. A genetic-engineering program has been used to create the ultimate fighting machine - soldiers bred for war, soldiers with greater strength, higher reaction speeds and an utter disregard for pain. Theirs and others. It's a nightmare from the pages of Doctor Moreau and soon Joe and his team are up against both the big business concerns who have billions invested in the project and, on the street, adversaries bred expressly to kill them. It's enough to make you wish you were facing zombies again ...

In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.

Want the Greatest Zombie Stories Ever Written? BEST NEW ZOMBIE TALES (Vol. 1) Over 100,000 words Includes Amazing Fiction by: WHC Grand Master Award Winner, Ray Garton New York Times Best Seller, Jonathan Maberry Bram Stoker Award Winner, Kealan Patrick Burke Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Jeff Strand Edgar Award, Bram Stoker Award Nominee, Bev Vincent Micro Award Finalist, Robert Swartwood Emmy Award Nominee, Harry Shannon British Fantasy Awards Nominee, Gary Mcmahon Bram Stoker Award Winner, Kim Paffenroth And so much more... "Something for every zombie fan--a gut-wrenching mix of horror, humor and thrills " NATE KENYON, award-winning author of: THE BONE FACTORY and SPARROW ROCK "In an increasingly crowded graveyard of zombie anthologies, this is a real standout. The stories are thought provoking, chilling, and entertaining, proving that there's still plenty of life in this sub-genre. Long live zombies " TIM WAGGONER, award winning author of: DARKNESS WAKES and LIKE DEATH "James Roy Daley separates the goods from the gristle with a butcher's shrewd eye for the prime cuts that transcend mundane gut-munchery, shaking us awake and reminding us what it means to be alive." CODY GOODFELLOW, co-author (with John Skipp) of: JAKE'S WAKE and THE DAY BEFORE TOC: Introduction JAMES ROY DALEY Zombie Love RAY GARTON Feeding Frenzy MATT HULTS Wings JESSICA BROWN The Man Who Breaks The Bad News KEALAN PATRICK BURKE Immunity JEFF STRAND In The Land Of The Blind ROBERT SWARTWOOD Nowhere People GARY McMAHON Muddy Waters BRIAN KNIGHT Darkness Comprehended HARRY SHANNON & GORD ROLLO Connections SIMON McCAFFERY Sign of the Times JOHN GROVER After, Life JEFF PARISH Paradise Denied JOHN L. FRENCH On The Usefulness Of Old Books KIM PAFFENROTH The Revelations of Dr. Maitland CHARLES BLACK Pegleg And Paddy Save The World JONATHAN MABERRY SKN-3 STEVEN E. WEDEL Fishing JASON BRANNON Groundwood BEV VINCENT

24 meets 28 DAYS LATER - a fast moving, hyper-violent techo-thriller with horror overtones.

In Jonathan Maberry's The Dragon Factory, Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) face their deadliest threat yet when they go up against two competing groups of geneticists bent on world domination. One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they've drawn first blood. Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag.

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 that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce 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....