The Crossover UniverseTM is a companion blog to the books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1-2 by Win Scott Eckert, and the forthcoming Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1-2 by Sean Levin. Material excerpted from Crossovers Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2010-2014 by Win Scott Eckert. All rights reserved. Material excerpted from Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2014-present by Sean Levin. All rights reserved.
This crossover is one of over a thousand covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
This crossover is one of over a thousand covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, coming this summer from Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
Then you'll love Maberry's story in this anthology, featuring his werewolf private eye Sam Hunter, which has several references to the Ledger books!
For more information, be sure to pick up a copy of my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3 when Meteor House publishes it! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
This crossover is one of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
This anthology of stories featuring Jonathan Maberry's character Joe Ledger has several stories in which the contributors have Ledger meeting their own characters.
In Jon McGoran's "Strange Harvest," Ledger and McGoran's detective Doyle Carrick investigate a pharmaceutical corporation.
In Scott Sigler's "Vacation," Ledger, vacationing in San Francisco, is asked to investigate the murder of two DEA agents. Inspector Lawrence “Pookie” Chang takes Ledger to the mansion of a possible suspect, Jebediah Erickson. Chang and Erickson are from Sigler’s novel Nocturnal.
In Larry Correia's "Psych Eval," the Department of Military Sciences must deal with a demonically possessed agent. Agent Franks has been contacted and is on his way. Franks is from Correia’s Monster Hunter International series.
In Jeremy Robinson's "Prince of Peace," an enigmatic group takes Joe Ledger and Chess Team’s Jack Sigler prisoner. Chess Team is the subject of a series of novels by Robinson.
In James R. Tuck's "White Flame on Sunday," Ledger joins forces with monster hunter Deacon Chalk to combat a Sumerian elephant cult. Like Ledger, Tuck’s character Deacon Chalk has several solid links to the CU.
Dana Fredsti's "Crash Course" features Ledger in the world of Fredsti’s Ashley Parker series, which takes place after a zombie apocalypse. Obviously, this would be an AU.
These crossovers are among the hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
In Weston Ochse and David Wellington's "The Lessons of Room 19," vampire hunter and ex-con Laura Caxton is blackmailed into helping Seal Team 666 member Jack Walker rid himself of his dependence on a “ghostskin” that bears the spirit of his dead girlfriend. Ochse’s Seal Team 666 series is in the CU through references in Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger books, so this story brings in Laura Caxton, the protagonist of a series of novels by Wellington.
In Larry Correia and Jonathan Maberry's "Weaponized Hell," the aforementioned Joe Ledger, of the Department of Military Sciences, and Agent Franks of the Monster Control Bureau battle terrorists who are summoning demons. Ledger and Agent Franks (from Correia’s Monster Hunter International series) are both in the CU.
These crossovers are only two of hundreds covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
February-Early September 2021
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Joe Ledger visits two older men who knew his father, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, as well as another of the elder Ledger’s acquaintances, Dr. Jean McGee-Thompson, a veterinarian who does “private salvage work on the side,” and lives aboard a boathouse in Fort Lauderdale. Joe’s grandfather was a close friend of Jean’s father. Seal Team 666, Chess Team, and SIGMA Force are mentioned.
Novel by Jonathan Maberry, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2021. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are from Joe R. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard books. Dr. Jean McGee-Thompson is meant to be Jean Killian, Travis McGee’s illegitimate daughter from John D. MacDonald’s The Lonely Silver Rain. Jean, who was born in 1968, is fifty-three here, so the year must be 2021. Jean appears in Lori Stone’s The Black Squall, set in 1997, as Jean Pearson, a young widow avenging the death of her father and his best friend Ludwig Meyer. According to Ledger, Jean’s husband was murdered twelve years earlier by his business partner, whom she killed in return. At some point between 1997 and 2009, Jean must have remarried to a man named Thompson. She evidently had terrible luck when it came to her husbands’ mortality. Seal Team 666 is from Weston Ochse’s novels. Chess Team is from Jeremy Robinson’s book series. The SIGMA Force series is authored by James Rollins.
This crossover writeup is one of hundreds included in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
As you may have guessed, I am back from my annual pilgrimage to FarmerCon, and will be resuming my daily crossover posts! I had a great time hanging out with Win, Michael Croteau, Paul Spiteri, and lots more of our friends. I attended some great panels, had some quality meals, and bought lots of books, including at least two works that will be in the new volume. It was a magical four-day event, and I am eagerly awaiting next year's convention!
This crossover, and hundreds more, are covered in my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, to be published by Meteor House! Like the first two volumes, this latest work is an AUTHORIZED companion to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
Then you'll love this audiobook, part of Peter Clines' Threshold series, which has a nod to a character from the Ledger books!
For more details, see my book Crossovers Expanded: A Secret Chronology of the World Volume 3, which will be published by Meteor House! All three volumes are AUTHORIZED companions to Win Scott Eckert's Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 and 2!
