Joe Ledger: Unbreakable

by Jonathan Maberry, Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Editor)

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 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!

Genres: Horror, Audiobook, Thriller, Fiction, Anthologies, Short Stories

379 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 10, 2023

About the author

JONATHAN 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

Reviews

[K9Capers · Rating 4 out of 5]

OMG... Little Murder Machine

[Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

The second collection of short stories featuring Joe Ledger and other characters from Maberry's excellent series by other authors.

Stories range from good to fantastic.

[Marion Schloemer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply OUTSTANDING!! I loved hearing short stories about Joe Ledger (and team) in crossover settings from some of my (other) favorite authors. And if that wasn’t enough, the voice of Joe Ledger — Ray Porter — authored one of the stories. Brilliantly. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listened to the audiobook narrated by Ray Porter. Overall, the stories are 3ish stars. Ray adds his 5 stars for an average of 4 for the book of Joe Ledger stories. He is the voice of Joe and crew and I'm certain that helped some of the weaker stories.

That said, I need more of Peter Clines and Jonathan Maberry crossover stuff, please. Veek and Bunny together was fun.

[Sarah-Grace (Azrael865) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unbreakable is an amazing collection of short stories. It is such a brilliant idea. My favorite author, Jonathan Maberry, and some other well known authors, contributed short stories featuring Maberry's characters from his Joe Ledger series. Some were cross over stories and some featured only the Ledger characters. All the stories are great. This is the second collection like this and the first collection, Unstoppable, was equally exciting.

I really liked 'Little Murder Machine' but Scott Sigler. This story is told from the POV of Cobbler, Joe Ledger's 17lb cat. The Perfect size for a cat, BTW. The story is of how Cobbler protects Ghost, Ledger's combat dog, and the apartment building when Ledger isn't home.

I was also very excited to see the collection featured a story written by Ray Porter (he also writes??!!! 😀) was my first thought. He is an actor and has also been the audio book narrator of the Joe Ledger series since book one. So I was especially excited to read the story about Joe Ledger, written by the man who has been Joe Ledger for 13 books +. When I am reading the print copies of the books I 'hear' his voice.

This is such great way to meet, new to me, authors. I'm already well into the stories of Quincy Harker now, because of the story in this collection featuring him with Ledger. I had not heard of the author, John G Hartness before this collection.

The interview of Jonathan Maberry and Ray Porter is worth the read too. I do like the behind the scenes peek a great interview, like this one, gives you.

[Wendy Bocock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book itself is really pretty.
Think my favorite story is Little Murder Machine by Scott Sigler, about Joe's cat, Cobbler. Always nice to see some "old friends", so enjoyed the Dana Fredsti's story, "Busman's Holiday". Couple of other authors that I am not familiar with their series, but enjoyed the crossover with Joe enough to put them on my list to check out.

[Andreas Acevedo Dunlop Strom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent collection of stories from the Ledger-verse. No duds, but some were better than others, of course. The standouts for me were Scott Sigler's very funny story about Cobbler, Peter Clines's Threshold crossover, Ray Porter's heartbreaking Church story, and, of course Maberry's own. Great little interview finishes off a fantastic volume.

[Tony · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great collection. As always, Ray Porter crushes the audible version. The story Little Murder Machine is worth the price alone. On top of that, there's a Joe Ledger/Monk Addison story. Great stuff. Now we need a Monk book like this. All those tattoos, imagine all the short stories. And Ray Porter is a must.

[Brett Grossmann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good not as great as the character is normally treated. Some of the authors were too green to play in the sandbox they were stumbling about. Lack of research. Time inconsistencies. The Mayberry Monk story really was a stand out. A few stories were very Barry Eisler with the child trafficking stuff

[John Sherman · Rating 3 out of 5]

'Little Murder Machine' buy Scott Sigler was my favorite story of this anthology. Cobbler is such a great character! The other standouts are from Maberry himself and Peter Clines as I love 14; book 1 of the Threshold Series (skip book 3 as it is dreadful to say the least).

[Darcy · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are a fan of the Joe Ledger series, this is a fun book. Shorts about Joe or other characters set in the world, all by different authors. Some of these will break your heart, some will have you laughing and some will scare you, but all of them are great reading!

[Joan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Joe Ledger and all the authors did a bang up job giving us stories in the Ledger universe.

[Jim Coleman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not my usual genre but enjoyable reading.

[Scott Benoit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent,great,amazing loved all the short stories. Love my Ghost best dog ever.
Ray Porter best narrator in the world.

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Joe Ledger, and I love even more when Maberry lets other authors play in his sand box. A great series of stories, and as always, fantastically narrated by Ray Porter.

[Twainy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I listened to it twice. So much more Joe! Loved it.

[Vanessa Kiger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent!

These are all such great stories. Each one is such a unique tale. I enjoyed this so much and wish it was a lot LONGER!!!

[A.M. Helmuth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly recommended for Ledger fans

As with any anthology there are excellent stories and some not so great. Three star to five star stories are included but all are enjoyable.

[Tracy P. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Get ready to experience sixteen amazing new anthologies written by some of the best horror writers around.

These stories include both old and new friends and cover the whole gambit of Ledger's career to date. We get new insights into Joe's beginnings as a Baltimore cop, his time with the Department of Military Sciences, and up through his present gig, guiding the newly formed Rogue Team International.

True to form, narrator Ray Porter gives a stellar performance as the voice for all of the characters. In addition, we are treated to an exciting anthology he personally wrote. Porter's talents never cease to amaze.

Highly recommend Unbreakable to any and all Joe Ledger fans.