The King of Plagues, Jonathan Maberry
The King of Plagues, Jonathan Maberry
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The King of Plagues

Author: Jonathan Maberry

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 16 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2011

Synopsis

Saturday, 0911 hours—A blast rocks a London hospital and thousands are dead or injured.1009 hours—Joe Ledger arrives on scene to investigate. The horror is unlike anything he has ever seen.Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the Department of Military Sciences and within hours is attacked by a hit team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak. Soon Joe Ledger and the DMS begin tearing down the veils of deception to uncover a vast and powerful secret society using weaponized versions of the Ten Plagues of Egypt to destabilize world economies and profit from the resulting chaos. Millions will die unless Joe Ledger meets this powerful new enemy on their own terms as he fights terror with terror.

About Jonathan Maberry

JONATHAN MABERRY (he/him) is a New York Times bestselling, Inkpot winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Relentless, Ink, Patient Zero, Rot & Ruin, Dead of Night, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU, and They Bite, among others. His V-Wars series has been adapted by Netflix, and his work for Marvel Comics includes The Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. He is the editor of Weird Tales Magazine and also edits anthologies such as Aliens vs Predator, Nights of the Living Dead (with George A. Romero), Don’t Turn out the Lights, and others.

About Ray Porter

Ray Porter is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator and fifteen-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Almost Famous, ER, and Frasier.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Choko on November 09, 2020

*** 4.44 *** This was a horrifying experience, but Joe Ledger, the most macho man I have ever read about outside of a shifter book, is the American Special Forces hero on steroids, dealing with a hiper-terrorist plots carried out by most evilest of evil extreme terrorists! And this description isn't......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on July 30, 2019

I get a little more fond of Joe with every book. I feel like he's kind of a Mary Sue, or whatever the male equivalent is. You know, no one can beat him, there's no situation he can't handle, he always crushes his enemies, but whatever! The stories are rousing tales filled with action, intrigue, figh......more

Goodreads review by Luna on July 06, 2022

What an awesome read! And to that point what an awesome year of reading. I just love goodreads and all the friends I’ve connected with. A big assist to those friends for all the authors and books they have turned me onto. I hope I didn’t jinx myself with regard to this awesome year of reading but I......more

Goodreads review by Andy on April 26, 2020

Bubblegum for the mind, but vitamin-fortified. This is a very good one in the series, especially if you want to know stuff like who was really behind 9/11. These books can be read out of order but it probably helps to follow the sequence. I appreciate them mainly for the smart-alecky humor, but ther......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on January 21, 2016

Because 'The King of Plagues', book 3 in the Joe Ledger series, is a silly but bad-ass comic-book James Bondish black-ops thriller, and every book in the series so far has involved germ-warfare and lab-designed chimera apocalypses of sorts, I suppose I should be sheepish and defensive that I like th......more

Quotes

“A fast-paced, brilliantly written novel. The hottest thriller of the New Year! In The King of Plagues, Jonathan Maberry reigns supreme.” Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Athena Project

“Powered by a cast of over-the-top characters, breakneck pacing, nonstop action, and a subtle sense of humor, this is an utterly readable blend of adventure fiction, suspense thriller, and horror.” Publishers Weekly

“Maberry’s best book to date. The ending guarantees a sequel that will be anxiously awaited by series fans.” Booklist

“Joe Ledger and the DMS are back in their most brutal tale yet as they face off against a diabolical organization that is always one step ahead. As the sinister plot is exposed and the body count rises, The King of Plagues is impossible to put down. Be prepared to lose some sleep.” Jeremy Robinson, author of Threshold and Instinct

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