Red Empire

Red Empire

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by Jonathan Maberry

Rogue Team International series #5

published March 2026

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The latest book in the Rogue Team International, Red Empire, brings back Joe Ledger and his new team to fight a supervillain who is weaponizing the very bacteria that once caused The Black Death. Joe Ledger’s old enemy, Red Empire has plans that could literally destroy the world if Jo doesn’t stop him in time. In addition, Mr. Church reveals a little more of his very hidden, murky, and mysterious past that has everyone wondering just who Mr. Church really is.

Hundreds of years after the first waves of the bubonic plague swept through Europe, a new, more dangerous version threatens London. Joe Ledger’s old enemy the Red Empire—reborn as a far more powerful political and military group—has bioengineered a weaponized version of yersinia pestis—the bacteria responsible for The Black Death that killed tens of millions in the Middle Ages.

As Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International race against the clock to put a stop to the Red Empire’s plans, they’re sucked into the strange and mysterious past of the man called Mr. Church. Secrets come to light that make even his staunchest allies wonder who –and more precisely what—Church really is.

With whispers of an elixir vitae—or elixir of life—circling, Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International are facing the highest possible stakes in their work together yet. As the tension builds and the balance between life and death sways precariously, it seems like tragic losses among them might be inevitable.