The Dragon Factory (Joe Ledger, #2)

by 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 ...

• ISBN10: 0575086955
• ISBN13: 9780575086951
• Publish Date: 15 April 2010 (first published 2 March 2010)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 8 December 2011
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Gollancz
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 496
• Language: English

Reviews

[leahrosereads]

A re-read to prepare myself for Book 6 of the series.

The Dragon Factory is Book 2 of the Joe Ledger series, and it was a fantastically fast paced read. Joe Ledger, Echo Team, Grace Courtland, Alpha Team, and the DMS face another extremely horrendous plot to destroy the world in this book. An Extinction Wave cooked up by Nazis to take out most of the human population, and to cause chaos. How do you even fight that type of evil? Our heroes did though, and in the end they succeeded, but not without their own losses.

I thought The Dragon Factory was an excellent second novel in this series, and is personally my third favorite out of the current 5 (Extinction Machine, Patient Zero, then this one).

Time to start The King of Plagues.