Rage: A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel

Rogue Team International Series, Book 1

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

From New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry (creator of the Netflix series V Wars) 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.

©2019 Jonathan Maberry (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

Here we go again...

DAMMIT MABERRY!! Books with this much action shouldn't make me bawl like a child but at this point I'm so invested in the characters I can't help it.

Yet again Maberry and Porter kidnap me onto the feels train only to promptly eject me into the desolate land in-between books; battered, bruised, and clamoring for more.

My only negative is that I jumped on picking this up too soon and now have to wait another year or more for the next installment.

THANKS FOR RIPPING MY HEART OUT, I LOVE YOU, I AM AVAILABLE TO PRE-SCREEN THE NEXT ONE... please...

#joeledgeraddictsanon

Woke warrior joe ledger

I absolutely love the first few joe ledger books for being fun and exciting adventures. The story and detailed fights were great but the last few books get politically preachy. I don’t disagree with the stances taken but i like to escape reality through books like this not get slammed with “woke warrior” joe ledger’s views on every little thing wrong with society. What!? You mean to tell me racism and sexism is wrong?! Politicians are corrupt?!
The last book was bad. I couldn’t finish this one...

New Series, Old Friends

New York Times Best-Selling author Jonathan Maberry brings us the first book in a new series featuring Joe Ledger and the Rogue Team International special ops team.

Filled with adrenaline from the first minute to its last, RAGE is fast, furious, action driven and unputdownable. The rules have changed, the enemy has changed, but all we know and love is at risk from something terrible and only Joe Ledger and the newly formed Rogue Team International squad of top notch black operators can stop it. The will kick down doors, ask no questions, take no names, but they will try to the best of their abbilities to finish the job and save the day.

Award Winning voice over actor and narrator Ray Porter returns once again to this universe and gives life with tallent and passion to Joe Ledger and other secondary characters. He reads, he acts and he makes the story even more real to the listener. He manages to deliver the perfect performance and at the same time achieves the highest level of immersion possible.

I think that he enjoys very much recording these action filled thrillers and that can be glimpsed from the way he handles the characters, the story and the entire world.

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Good, but Starting to feel Rote

The book starts out like your typical Joe Ledger book… thankfully, with lots of action and attitude. The book continues in the same fashion, though I'd say there was less action than other books.

Some parts of the book seem to have been added as afterthoughts. These seem to be centered on subtle political issues, as if the editor or author wanted the book to reflect more events of the current day. Even though some reviewers of the book claim there are politics in this book, I didn't detect anything overt. Those added parts definitely seemed to be "current relevant," but not specifically to one side or the other and more like observations than passing judgement on anyone or anything. Which was nice, because nothing ruins a book faster than having the author's politics suddenly rear its ugly head where it doesn't belong.

Authors often get caught into writing traps, where the same theme gets repeated over and over, or where every character uses the same catch phrases. For this book, it seemed to be the encyclopedic amount of emotions and meanings expressed or compressed in people's eyes. Instead of simply saying, "I could see he was in pain," the author chose to describe how much "eye conveyance" for almost every glance from the protagonists. It grew tiresome after a while. Thankfully, this didn't detract from the enjoyment of the book.

Some parts of the book seemed cliched or contrived - including recycled villains - while other parts were very surprising. I won't give away spoilers, but some events caught me by surprise, more because the author actually "went there." Other parts of the book conveniently had Joe making the mistakes he shouldn't be making, which clearly was done in order to advance the plot. A little of this can be forgiven, but there seemed to be too much in this book. Hopefully this isn't a foreshadow of future books.

The narrator, Ray Porter, did another fantastic job, as always. I don't think the Joe Ledger audio books would be as enjoyable if it wasn't for the narrator being so amazingly good. He literally breathes life into the characters and scenes.

I wanted to like it.

I've listened to all 10 of the Joe Ledger series., I loved them all except Deep Silence it was a great disappointment when Maberry went political. In Rage, IMO Maberry lost his magic with Joe Ledger. After chapter 9, I returned it.

Losing the edge

This book goes wrong in so many ways. A kindler and gentler Joe Ledger who detests violence... but is even more violent than before in do what's necessary for the greater good. It rambles on for 17 hours and mostly just polarizes Joe even more and sets us up for a sequel. Maberry needs to get back to writing action and thriller without trying trying to out-do previous books and justify Joe's behavior. A new villain might also help instead of recycling the old... Not done with the series yet, but disappointed by this installment.

Main lining Joe ledger. Oh the rush.

Loser move! Bad guy you beat 1/2 to death delivers cartoon bomb to your house and you accept it?
ROCKET to the homestead... ok.
THAT DERECK! What a loser!
SORRY LAST JOE LEDGER BOOK I'LL BUY.

really disappointed

I am a huge fan of the Joe Ledger series and have listened to every book but I think I am done.

I really wanted to like this book but Maberry's writing style has just become very "filler" for me. he spends twice as long describing the scene and the thoughts of the characters in it, than what actually happens. Joe has become more of a philosopher than a soldier/special operator. and the recaps are just ridiculous now.....every recurring character, every novel in the series, every major event has to be recapped and reviewed in every book. it feels like only half of the book is actual story and plot.

A Different Type of Ledger Novel: I love it!

Kudos on Mayberry starting off this new series and differentiating it from the previous books. this feels different in its writing style and execution. The situations are more adult oriented but just as cemented in the real world. More importantly this is book feels like the beginning of a trilogy or series. There are great, diverse, new characters and exploration into other parts of the ledger family. This book really pushes the idea of being a humanist and getting out of the manipualation and taught hate that politics pushes on people. Don't believe the naysayers in the reviews, this book, nor any other, has pushed an agenda, what you do see is a man who wants to see humanity survive. If someone doesn't get that about ledger they aren't a true ledger fan.

More importantly, there is evidence that this timeline does not coincide with the zombie ledger timeline, and that makes me super happy. I like the idea of not knowing whats going to happen.

i almost stopped listening

I liked this book, but im going to be honest...there were two things that almost made me quit listening. one, the excess sex scenes. in the past its been pretty vague, but for some reason he went into detail in this book. didnt like that. the second reason was Juni. when Juni first came into the books, i liked her. she was smart, and she understood Joe. but the most recent books, especially this one, i feel like the author is turning her into the "typical stupid woman" in the books. It seemed like Juni was trying to make Joe out to be a bad person because he doesnt react to situation the same way a "normal" person would. he has alwayd been like that, as Rudy knows and helps him with. its just a part of who he is. and there were several parts where i felt like Juni was showing her ass and shaming Joe unduly. I think its official to say that i dont like Juni anymore because of this book. she WAS smarter than the typical 'iM gOiNg To ChAnGe HiM eVeN tHoUgH I LoVe HiM fOr HiM' type of woman that is often overplayed.

Get an editor, guy!

I'll listen to any old bloke-lit. Crichton, Child, Clancy etc...

But I just could not get through this as much as I tried. It bored me. Once you know how much ground Lee Child or Tom Clancy can cover in a 12hr audiobook, you realise that this is ridiculous. 18 hours? Please.

It does have the makings of a good story, but I'm afraid the execution left a great deal to be desired, and the one-dimensional comic-book characters have "warning - author is on the spectrum" written all over them.

Wow, first Joe Ledger book. Not disappointed.

I haven’t had the pleasure of hearing the previous stories of Joe Ledger, I remember when Patient Zero came out I wanted to listen to it and I couldn’t find an audio version on the platforms I use. I still can’t. So I am listening to this series (hopefully it’s a series) as a new listener. I’m not totally lost, there is a nice little introduction to every character, and little bits of back story here and there. I don’t however have the feelings a person would have if they have had listened to all of the previous books, but the Narrator does manage to make me feel how I should.

Ray Porter is very good at narration, he makes sure that each character has their own voice. I really enjoyed listening to him. Jonathan Maberry tells a good story, can’t wait for the next book!

My only gripe is the name of the chapters could of been edited.
I think the full names of the chapters would be too much, but maybe use interlude and make sure that chapter one is chapter one. By the end of the book the chapter on the app was saying: 155, however the audio was telling me it was chapter: 137 ( not including epilogue)

That God damn ending!

Ray Porter as always manages to grab you and you there the whole time. Really happy to continue the Joe Ledger series. However, we really need to have a long... loooong chat about that ending....

Brilliant

Action packed , great characters and superb narration. You won't be disappointed. And you will be wanting the follow up!

I loved this book. It was awesome.

This was the first book by Jonathan Mayberry, narrated by Ray Porter, that I listened to. It would not be possible to get a better partnership than Mayberry and Porter. I have read many books, this book was truly outstanding. I am a big fan now. Listen to the book, it gets better and better. I loved it, you will too.

Rage left me spent

Spectacular story, if you like the echo team, havoc team will pump your gas great new chapter for joe and church

Excellent...

.....this was an emotional roller coaster that made you feel the full range of them all

Good but disappointing ....

Now I love the Joe Ledger series I've liked then from years and have listened to all the books more than twice, patient zero maybe 4 times!!!

As well as all the other incredible titles under Mr Mayberry, however.. it's with a sad heart that im rating this book only 3 stars...

It has all the great Ledger elements, fast paced, baddies that you like, moments of eye widening real science and facts that make you stop and Google.. and characters that you feel you know and have got to know and like !! But this is also the reason I'm falling slowly out of love with the series...

They have become (especially the past 3 books) very very VERY repetitive.. as always Joe has issues that he deals with throughout the book, baddies once again threaten global terrorism and usually are slightly likeable, then some huge character development on a couple of characters... But.....As ever all this rides out for about 90% of the book then in the past 10% a suprising/lucky break means that at the last minute Joe saves the day in a massive fight that he should have never ever won from the start, newly introduced characters are usually dead the usual suspects are unscathed.... It reminds me of the old star trek TV program you'd have the stars in red jumpers and basically anyone else in any other colour jumper are gonna get killed off.

It makes the books highly predictable the suspension has gone and it feels like reading something I've read in the past, where I can guess the outcome... I love this series and really hope Johnathan can come back with another new book that blows my socks off with some new twists and exciting plot developments.

A must for Joe Ledger fans

A must for Joe Ledger fans. Once again Jonathan Maberry captures the over arching world mood,and it’s tension throughout this adventure. It is brought fully,sharply,amazingly into focus by the master story teller Ray Porter. Cannot wait for the next adventure.

Always want more

The writing is so good the story just whips by far too quickly.

Funny entertaining emotional.

Fantastic work as always Mr Mayberry.