1. Patient Zero (2009; St. Martin’s Griffin)
2. The Dragon Factory (2010; St. Martin’s Griffin)
3. King of Plagues (2011; St. Martin’s Griffin)
4. Assassin’s Code (2012; St. Martin’s Griffin)
5. Extinction Machine (2013; St. Martin’s Griffin)
6. Code Zero (2014; St. Martin’s Griffin)
7. Predator One (2015; St. Martin’s Griffin)
8. Kill Switch (2016; St. Martin’s Griffin)
9. Dogs of War (2017; St. Martin’s Griffin)
10. Deep Silence (2018; St. Martin’s Griffin)

JOE LEDGER—ROGUE TEAM INTERNATIONAL

1. Rage (2019; St. Martin’s Griffin)

JOE LEDGER SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

1. Joe Ledger: Special Ops (2014; JournalStone; short story collection)
2. Joe Ledger: The Missing Files (2012; Blackstone audio collection)
3. Joe Ledger: Unstoppable (2017; St. Martin’s Griffin; anthology, various authors)

DEAD OF NIGHT and FALL OF NIGHT are set fifteen years after the Ledger series. They are also the official story of how “First Night” (the zombie apocalypse from Rot & Ruin) happens. The books in this series include:

THE DEAD OF NIGHT SERIES

1. Dead of Night (2012; St. Martin’s Griffin)
2. Fall of Night (2014; St. Martin’s Griffin)
3. Dark of Night (2016; novella; JournalStone; with Rachael Lavin)
4. Still of Night (2018; JournalStone; novella and short stories; with Rachael Lavin)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

The movie, written by George A. Romero and John Russo, takes places approximately two days after the events in Dead of Night.

SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS

There are various short stories and novellas that bridge the gap between FALL OF NIGHT and ROT & RUIN. They are included in various anthologies and in my short story collections. The titles are:

Concurrent or directly after FALL OF NIGHT:

• Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
• Chokepoint
• Fat Girl with a Knife
• Jack and Jill
• Sunset Hollow
• A Christmas Feast
• Valley of Shadows
• First Night Memories

Lone Gunman (included in the anthology, NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD, which I co-edited with George Romero—writer/director of Night of the Living Dead. George was a huge fan of DEAD OF NIGHT and asked me to write a story that officially connected my series to his movie.

• Saint John (origin of the villain from books #3 and #4 of the ROT & RUIN series)

Two to five years after FALL OF NIGHT

• The Wind through the Fence
• Jingo and the Hammerman
• Overdue Books
• Back in Black (with Bryan Thomas Schmidt) (a Joe Ledger/Tom Imura crossover)
• Dead & Gone
• In the Land of the Dead
• Rags & Bones
• Hero Town
• Tooth & Nail

Then there’s the ROT & RUIN series, which takes place fourteen years after the events of First Night. Then a new series spins off from that one, BROKEN LANDS.

THE ROT & RUIN SERIES

1. Rot & Ruin (2010; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
2. Dust & Decay (2011; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
3. Warrior Smart (2015; graphic novel; IDW publishing)
4. Flesh & Bone (2012; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
5. Fire & Ash (2013; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
6. Bits & Pieces (2015; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
7. Broken Lands (December 2018; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
8. Lost Roads (December 2019; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

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