Church contacts them and fills them in in a hurry, they must leave and move fast to avoid the NSA and rendezvous with Captain Ledger in Denver for backup.Ĭhurch informs Joe that Captain Peterson and Jigsaw team has gone dark on a mission in a storage facility called Deep Iron in Denver. It was a routine pick-up turned bad as their newest addition, Big Bob Farraday, got half his body shot up by Russians with automatics Bunny and Top take them out. While Joe was visiting Helen and escaping the NSA, the rest of echo team is approaching a man hiding out in a rundown hotel.

Paris Jakoby, and his sister Hecate, god-like specimens of beauty and genius geneticists in their own right are pushing their own agenda: making billions of dollars and standing on top of the world. They are celebrating their greatest achievement yet: in one week, the extinction wave will begin, and all of the mud people of earth will be dead. Joe is sent to Denver to find out what happened.Ĭyrus Jakoby, and his assistant Otto, are brilliant geneticists. Jigsaw team has gone dark, and they’ve received a weird email from an unknown source.

Joe ditches his tails and gets the info from Church. DMS teams and facilities are trying to keep their control, using threats and dissuasion. Under the orders of the Vice President, while the President is in heart surgery, they are attempting to seize control of all DMS staff, properties, and equipment. Joe is visiting the grave of his former girlfriend, Helen, when he is approached by NSA agents. Joe Ledger and Echo Team has run a number of missions for the DMS, terrorists cells closed, assassination attempts thwarted, and the like. The story starts three months after the events of Patient Zero. Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads echo team to war under a black flag. Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they've drawn first blood.

One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenaries armies the other is using twenty-first-century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Joseph Mengele. Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists. The Dragon Factory is the second novel in the Joe Ledger series written by American author Jonathan Maberry. It was first published in March 2010 by St Martin's Griffin.

Joe ledger extinction machine