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is another good chapter of the story of Joe Ledger and his team of warriors, In this tale he defends his family in Baltimore, He also interacts with his dog friend Ghost, his female companion Junie Flynn, and together they defeats foes that are unbeatable.
This series is amazing because they always do the impossible, This is book numberin this series, If you do not know how I feel about Joe Ledger and Echo team of the DMS by now, go back and read the first novel in the series, sitelinkPatient Zero.
I was so grateful that this book ended on a hopeful note, Joe and the DMS have been through so much in the last few books, they needed a win,
Awesome, as usual. The Joe Ledger series is by far one of the best military/intelligence agency thriller series' out there, Maberry has a way of taking some of the wildest and scariest technological possibilities and realistically weaving them into the series.
The characters themselves are as entertaining as it gets, The villains are complex and interesting, And, Maberry has a way of weaving great explanations for events, techniques, and horrors of the REAL world into his stories.
In this book he adeptly describes the psychological perspective of technocrats and eugenicists,

Specifically, this one's full of nanotech, artificial intelligence, quantum computers, military robotics, and of course the good old fashioned problem solvers of excessive expenditure of ammunition.
Plus, being a dog person, they had to contend with robot combat dogs, Not to mention the titanium toothed superdogsoldier and companion, Ghost, Just love the Ledger Series Zephyr Bain has been groomed since childhood to release Havoc, the technological singularity that will cull the world of anyone she determines does not deserve to live.
She has spent her life making lists of people who offended her and other who were just not smart enough.
She built her AI, Calpurnia, to aid her in this destruction, Calpurnia has spent her life learning and becoming sentient, When Joe Ledger and the Department of Military Science arrive, late in the game, it is almost too late to stop the annihilation of the world.
The DMS is down several key personnel after the events of Kill Switch and those who are left have fallen into despair over whether or nor they actually know what they are doing.
It is easy to get lost in the horrors the DMS deals with every day, Once again, Maberry has crafted an intricately plotted amalgam of horror, science fiction, fantasy and crime fiction, At this point Joe has became Naruto, Naruto have Sharingan, Joe have Mindreader, And they throw it around right and left like farts and defeats every other problem, This technology has been mentioned so so many times I particularly am totally tired and wouldn't like to read about it anymore.
So many backtrack, so many old references, made me bored, On top of that to incorporate a character in the whole timeline forcefully the story was made further redundant.


I am glad that this series ends with the next book, Enough of freeking Mindreader already, My review of sitelinkDOGS OF WAR can be found at sitelinkHigh Fever Books,

One of the hardest parts about reviewing Jonathan Maberrys Joe Ledger series is finding hopefully new and compelling ways to illustrate what makes them so damn good.
Maberrys been at this a while now and although hes got the formula down pat, the series as a whole has been too entertaining to feel overly formulaic.
Yes, I do get a bit tired of all the interludes and Ledgers recapping of his mental state and the divisions in his personality as The Cop, The Warrior, and The Modern Man, and his backstory as a teenager, but nine books in, Ive also come to accept that these things are all just part of the formula.
Its tiresome info for the dedicated reader, perhaps, but easily overlooked if youre willing, and its necessary info for new readers who might enter this series at any point.
So, that all said, what can I say about Dogs of War

Well, for starters, Maberry doesnt do small scale.
I noted in my review for Kill Switch that Maberry has an uncanny knack for making each new threat in these subsequent books the biggest and baddest dangers the world has ever faced.
I wasnt sure he could outsize himself anymore, but somehow hes managed and the problems faced in Dogs of War are even bigger than the last goround in terms of potential lethality for the world at large.
Maberry uses those past threats faced by Joe Ledger and his team at the DMS to build toward something huge and nigh unstoppable, so here we have the dangers of military drones as glimpsed in Predator One but more personally and harshly realized, artificial intelligence, and, as is a prerequisite in these books, a super wealthy megalomaniac who wants to destroy the world.


Also building on those threads from prior novels is the current state of operations of the DMS.
Ledgers Echo Team has taken a pounding over the last several books, leaving whats left of his heavy hitters with PTSD, and certain issues arising from Kill Switch have left the Department of Military Sciences on the outs with a lot of its sister agencies in the US government.
DMS is at the lowest point weve seen thus far, having suffered numerous defeats and with so much of the world having grown wise to Mr.
Churchs Mindreader supersoftware that has, for so long, given them an edge in their war on terror,

One particular point of interest Ive found as I play catchup with the Joe Ledger series is how it plays given the foreknowledge that the tenth book, Deep Silence, is the last DMS novel as Maberry launches his series character into a new ongoing Rogue Team International series.
Over the course of the last few books, its felt like Maberry has been on a path toward winding down the DMS books and wrapping up loose ends as he revisits past threats and cases.
Its particularly telling that, at one point, Church tells Ledger that the current state of the DMS is not what it was nor what it will become.
I cant help but wonder at the foreshadowing in that and what it means for the future of Joe Ledger to come.


Another neat thing I found in Dogs of War was Maberrys shout out to other big genre thriller series in the vein of his DMS books.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that DMS exists and operates alongside James Rollinss Sigma Force, Weston Ochses Seal Team, and Jeremy Robinsons Chess Team.
Theyre fun callouts for genre fans, and I had a good time catching these little Easter Eggs, I cant imagine the publishing logistics that would go into it, but how cool would it be have Joe Ledger and Gray Pierce team up for some international, supernaturallaced counterterrorism hijinks

The biggest win here, though, came from the philosophical discussions surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence and the impending technological singularity.
I really love the nextgen science that goes into these Ledger books, and Maberry is right on top of current trends, crafting some believable and all tooreal scares about nanotechnology, plague threats, and military applications for robotic dogs.
This last aspect was particularly prescient of Maberry in, given that just a few weeks ago news broke that the Massachusetts State Police have already begun testing the use of Boston Dynamicss autonomous robot dogs.
Pardon me if Im a bit leery at this news

Maberry is scarily on the cusp of potential threats in our nearfuture world, and his books leave me hoping that there is somebody like Mr.
Church and Joe Ledger out there helping to keep a lid on all the truly weird science and apocalyptic designs of the worlds various misfits and demagogues.
Especially since, on this last point in particular, we seem to be losing and could really, really, really use somebody like Joe Ledger to rake up some wins for the good guys here.
This review is going to break my heart,
This is the first book in the Ledger series that I was bored for long periods, It is the first one where I cringed at some of the dialogue and thought a lot of parts were corny.

Maberry is awesome. The Pine Deep trilogy is pimptastic, his zombie books are killer, andLedger are all great too, This one though eh not so much.
There were glimpses of awsomeness and some action scenes were really cool but for the most part it was just average, subpar Maberry IMO.

.or.generously rounded up tostars, Jonathan Maberry has a way of weaving a story that makes you want to jump ahead in anticipation of what's going to happen.
Telling a tale that both moves the story forward smoothly, but also fills in important gaps with flashbacks, At the time you are reading them, you just want to get to the next part of the present, because you are so caught up in wanting to see what happens to your favorite characters.
If they ever kill Ghost, we riot But, the flashbacks are as much a part of the story as the present story and everything ties together with great satisfaction to the reader.

Theth installment of the Joe Ledger series in no let down, In fact, it is one of the best offerings to date, Genuinely making me uncomfortable as a reader, In a good way. Truly making me feel that characters I have grown attached to were in serious jeopardy,
The DMS faces threats from multiple directions in Dogs of Wars, From both, technological, biological, cyber, and even supernatural threats, Racing to solve a crisis that they never seem to have enough pieces of to get ahead of, Not being what they once ere after the events in theth book, Kill Switch But, heroes rally and heroes overcome when evil seem insurmountable.
Do they stop said evil in time to save the world I won't say, But Seriously, what do you think I can say that I had a great time with this one and I am already looking forward to the next one coming in November.
In this ninth outing in the extraordinary Joe Ledger series, the DMS is in flux and reeling after events in the previous novel, KILL SWITCH.
Ledger and many of his DMS colleagues suffered losses saving the world yet again and dealing with the aftereffects, the trauma.
But as readers can predict, a newer greater threat is brewing ominously and Joe Ledger and the DMS must rise to the toughest, most deadly challenge yet.
. . or risk billions of deaths against an unstoppable technological apocalypse,

No one writes these white knuckle thrillers, a clever blend of scifi horror, weird science, thriller and horror better than Jonathan Maberry.
Highest of recommendations! This is a review from,
I've been thinking about this review for a month now, and for some reason I'm just befuddled by the whole thing.
I'm not usually at a loss for words when it comes to Jonathan Maberry and his Joe Ledger series.
Ledger and his team are always fighting the big bad, but this book ended up scaring me in another way.
A. I. , robotics, and nanotechnology is not my idea of great things to look forward to! But, the way Mr, Maberry has come up with the destruction of humanity in this book is truly terrifying, To say that I'm looking forward to the next few books in this series would be a vast understatement! Yep, I'd recommend this book and author.
Thanks to St. Martin's and Netgalley for supplying me with an early earc, Notes:

Kill Switchwas great! Dogs of Warwas good, but it doesn't have the same impact and mind bending insanity.
There's a tone of unease and danger from start to finish that is appropriate for the overall story arc but not an easy phase of emotions to hold onto for a whole book.


Some of the flashbacks bring back older characters and I can't help but miss Hugo, He's one of the best gray area bad guys, He's not evil to the point that you hate him, He is relatable and twisted but not in the way that makes him seem completely inhuman,

Mini:

Strong till the end, The ending was anticlimatic but I really enjoyed how well past events were connected to the current crisis, I found myself missing a few of the characters that have played a bigger role in the last few books and hoping that they will be in the next book.
Plus, I have a snippet of an idea that I hope will come to fruit in a later story.
If it does, that would be awesome!

Ton of action, madness, touchstones that keep our heroes sane and bloody triumphs are all explored in great detail.
Good stuff! I enjoyed it, All the Stars ok Joe gets every damn star out there
I can even write a review Im so destroyed over the fact there are no more Joe books

for me
Gahhhhhh So I have finally finished Joe Ledger.
Only took me likemonths or close to it, As usual Jonathan Maberry delivers an action packed, on the edge of your seat Novel, Really there is not one book of his that I did not like, At times I thought he was going to kill off a character and I was so close to yelling but like always the DMS team is triumphant over there enemies.
A new team member is introduced and from her first experience with what they deal with, She'll make out just fine.
Not sure if I will go straight to the next one but he is already releasing a new one in November I believe.
As long as I read Joe Ledgerbeforecomes out, Sorry for the short review everyone, .