Rage: A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel

by Jonathan Maberry

Overview

From New York Times Bestselling author (creator of the Netflix series V Wars), Jonathan Maberry comes the first in a brand new series featuring Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International.

A small island off the coast of Korea is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone—men, women, and children—insane with murderous rage. The people behind the attack want Korea reunified or destroyed. No middle ground. No mercy. Soon Japan, China, and the United States are pushed to the brink of war, while terrorists threaten to release the rage bioweapon in a way of pure destructive slaughter. Joe Ledger leads his newly formed band of international troubleshooters in their first mission to stop the terror cell, fighting alongside agents from North and South Korea. With the lives of billions at stake, Ledger is willing to bring his own brand of terror to this frightening new war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250303585
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/05/2019
Series:	Rogue Team International Series , #1
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	261,995
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Deep Silence, Kill Switch, Predator One, Code Zero, Fall of Night, Patient Zero, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU, and They Bite, among others. His V-Wars series has been adapted by Netflix, and his work for Marvel Comics includes The Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. His Joe Ledger series has been optioned for television.
JONATHAN MABERRY (he/him) is a New York Times bestselling, Inkpot winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Relentless, Ink, Patient Zero, Rot&Ruin, Dead of Night, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU, and They Bite, among others. His V-Wars series has been adapted by Netflix, and his work for Marvel Comics includes The Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther. He is the editor of Weird Tales Magazine and also edits anthologies such as Aliens vs Predator, Nights of the Living Dead (with George A. Romero), Don’t Turn out the Lights, and others.

Editorial Reviews

09/16/2019

Joe Ledger, the hero of bestseller Maberry’s Deep Silence and nine other thrillers, gets a reboot in this uneven series debut introducing Rogue Team International. Ledger, a member of this autonomous group of troubleshooters headed by his former boss at the U.S. Department of Military Sciences, faces a terrifying challenge after inhabitants of a North Korean island are infected with something that transforms them into rage-filled killers with a taste for human flesh. Ledger, whose considerable experience includes containing biohazards, goes to the island under the guise of a consultant for the World Health Organization. When evidence emerges of American involvement in the island’s devastation, international tensions escalate. Maberry undermines his efforts to suspend disbelief by having bad guys joke about being clichéd James Bond villains and making a Ledger ally, who’s Doc Holliday’s great-granddaughter, a “supergenius who looks like Dolly Parton.” Uneven prose (“all the fun drained from the day like blood from a dying body”) is another minus. The implausibilities outweigh everything else. Agent: Sara Crowe, Pippin Properties. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

"Rage is not for the faint-hearted as your heart will be in your throat during the non-stop action that Jonathan Maberry has created. Bringing Joe Ledger to the international scene, Maberry has started a new chapter for his protagonist, raising the bar for a thriller series that was already one of the best in the business!" -Criminal Element

"The book is action-packed from the first page to the last." -mysterysequels.com

"Maberry has done it again." -Suspense Magazine

"If you want a smart story, dripping in testosterone. The type that leans smarts over brawn, until brawn is needed. That and if you like kernels of horror in your espionage. You should grab RAGE and thank me later." -Ain't It Cool News

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