Rogue Trader Reading Order

Andy Hoare

The opening novel of a Rogue Trader trilogy following the Gerrit dynasty, starship captains granted ancient charters to trade and conquer along the Imperium's Eastern Fringe. With their fortunes failing, the patriarch gambles everything on a deal to aid a frontier commander's war, plunging his family into an escalating conflict that could cost them far more than coin.

Andy Hoare

The second Rogue Trader novel continues the saga of the Gerrit family as their frontier war spirals into a far larger crusade. Bound to an Imperial fleet pushing into contested space, Lucian Gerrit must navigate shifting alliances, military politics and alien threats while keeping his fractious dynasty intact. The stakes for the family's survival climb ever higher.

Andy Hoare

An Imperial Guard regiment and a contingent of Space Marines fight a desperate campaign on a tau-contested world, where alliances of convenience and questions of honour strain the human war effort. Sergeant Sarik of the White Scars carries the action as battle-brotherhood and command rivalries collide against the alien threat. The closing volume of the Rogue Trader-linked Imperial sequence built around the Damocles frontier.

James Swallow

A rogue trader captain and her ragtag crew pursue pirates to the fringes of the Imperium, only to board a derelict vessel hiding something far older and more dangerous than a simple bounty. What begins as a hunt for plunder spirals into a confrontation with an ancient terror that imperils the whole sector. Originally released as a full-cast audio drama in the spirit of gritty space-opera adventure.

Marc Collins

In the shadow of the newly torn Great Rift, three proud rogue trader dynasties are charged by Roboute Guilliman himself with finding a way across the Cicatrix Maledictum. The Lamertine heir must bind feuding houses and Imperial factions to a single mission while betrayal and old vendettas threaten to unravel everything. A politically driven dynastic intrigue more concerned with treachery among the trader families than with action set-pieces.

Richard Williams

Aboard the Imperial Navy cruiser Relentless, a scheming first officer arranges the assassination of his newly appointed captain to protect his own corrupt empire of power. The captain survives and works his way back up from the lowest ranks of the ship's brutalised conscript labourers, intent on reclaiming command. A claustrophobic shipboard drama of mutiny, ambition and class struggle within a single warship.