Assassin's Code

The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 4

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe and Echo Team into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for blood.

Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows a series of clues to find the Book of Shadows, which contains a horrifying truth that threatens to shatter his entire worldview. They say the truth will set you free… Not this time. The secrets of the Assassin’s Code will set the world ablaze.

©2012 Jonathan Maberry (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"Maberry delivers plenty of action." ( Publishers Weekly)

Great writing!

this was a great story from beginning to end. plenty of ups and downs and you never quite knew what was coming next. Even right up to the end you were feeling kind of melancholy and things weren't great and then the very last line of the book changed some things.

Hang On To Your Shorts!

Just spent the week with Joe Ledger, all 4 in a row, and WOWeee......did I have a good time! Not since I rode the roller coaster 11 times in a row back in high school, (and subsequently lost my corn dog and sno-cone) have I had this much of a wild rollicking ride. When I read the first Ledger book, I thought it was a very enjoyable diversion; I had no intention of continuing on with the books--but 4 books later...I can't think of a funner way to spend the summer than with Joe, Ghost, Bunny, Church, and the rest of Echo Team, on 4 completely different spine-tingling adventures.

Because Assassin's Code is the 4th in a series about Ledger, rather than a continuation of a plot, this book is as strong as the first Ledger installment, and could easily stand on its own. There's no following a strung out plot and dragging to the finish line. (I actually liked the first and this fourth the most.) Instead, Maberry's creativity seems to be picking up speed, and hints at more fun to come. Fast paced, spooky, and crazy fun--but there's just enough reality and science to put a little chill in those thrills; and writting that goes effortlessly from technical, to sarcastic and funny, to down right scary. You'll love the good guys, hate the villains, cheer for the dog, and be intrigued by the mysterious Mr. Church...what more could you want in an action-adventure-thriller?! Ledger may be this era's answer to James Bond. Ray Porter is, once again, outrageously good as narrator/Joe Ledger (is it my imagination, or is he sounding more and more like Ron White?) and gets better with each book.

Assassin's Code is wildly entertaining on its own; don't be surprised if you end up wanting to go again, and again on the Ledger/Porter/Maberry ride.

Now with more Vampires

Zombies, werewolves, secret societies (ala Illuminate), super-virus's and even a dragon (all of course with a mostly super-science edge, not paranormal). So the one obvious missing item in our paranormal ecology is vampires, so this book deals it out in spades. As I have read the books in this series the one thing I kept thinking is that the only person who seems to be having a worse day would have been Jack Bauer from the TV series 24. Then I remember the first line above and I am going to have to have to declare that Joe is definitely having a worse time that Jack.

Assassin's Code kept me alive, as I listened to it on a long drive where I was quite tired, but there was no way that I was going to fall asleep and miss what happened next. As it often happens in this series it starts of strong and keeps up the action (with one exception, the interludes to the historical events that provide some of the back story on the organizations) to the explosive crescendo at the end.

Joe, Ghost and Echo Team are in Iran, rescuing some wayward hikers that have been kidnapped by the Iranian's. On their way out they Joe is isolated and forced, by a mysterious sniper team, to meet with the head of Iran's Intelligence organization who provides some specific information (and some generic background stuff) about 7 (big, multi-megaton) nuclear weapons that are being staged around the Middle East as well as possibly in the US.

So without rest Joe and the DMS are thrown into a desperate search to find and disarm those weapons. Along the way we run into the Red Order (a secret order of Vampire Assassin's), a secret anti-vampire organization and even the Holy Inquisition. It even incorporates one of the historical question marks that have confounded scholars for decades, the Voynich Manuscript. This really is some great fun and anytime you stop for that book reading interruption thing called life you feel the twitchy need to get back to it ASAP.

Another big hit!

I love these books I own and read each book and never get bored. Jonathan Maberry Joe Ledger Series is the Michael Bay of books in terms of action while having a story that keeps you wondering and keeps you on your toes. I highly recommend this Series buy all four (plus the short story's). The narration by Ray Porter is simply awesome. Every character has a different voice and accent that's based on the location of the novel.

Joe Ledger is the Man! Keep the stories coming!

Loved it. I want more stories in this series because Joe Ledger saves the world.

Another Joe Ledger winner

These are great books- entertaining for the long commute. Ledger is a down to earth James Bond meets the sci-fi channel series.

Outstanding!

Captivating story line combined with a superb narration by Ray Porter who is one of the best in the business.
Could not stop listening!

you can listen to over and over

Exciting, don't wanna stop listening, starting with patient zero I am a Mayberry junky!!! Definitley worth getting!!!

Love me some Joe Ledger

Jonathan Maberry does a great job crafting the story and making you love the characters. It's a definite favorite of mine!

Breathtaking. !!!

The Joe Ledger adventures never disappoint! Written skillfully and artfully Jonathan Mayberry Texas on another breathless adventure. The narration by Ray Porter is the cherry on top, I could not imagine the series without the limitless acting skills of Mr. Porter's narration.

Do not miss this series