The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus

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The first is Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint by Matthew Farrer, focusing on the Iron Snakes and continuing the Sabbat Worlds saga on Urdesh. Ibram Gaunt – now serving at the right hand of Warmaster Macaroth – finds himself at the very heart of the struggle.

Every settled planet in the Imperium of Man is subject to the Imperial tithe: as many able-bodied men as that planet can provide to feed the meat grinder of The Emperor's wars. The majority of the Crusade force is deployed to assault the coastline fortifications known as K'ethdrac'tt Shet Magir, an action which the newly inducted Dalin Criid participates in as part of an RIP (Retraining, Indoctrination and Punishment) detail. Nicknamed the Ghosts, their specialist scouting role has thrown them into the thickest of the fighting, trying to complete whatever desperate mission their uncaring commanders have volunteered them for. First and Only - Supposedly this is the first novel Dan Abnett ever wrote, which is of course not true, and it's an easy lie to spot: no one's first book could possibly be this good. A rough chronology of the series and related works, overlaid with the history of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, as detailed in Dan Abnett's background book.Yes, this is the first book I can think of where I was actively slowing myself just to make it last, rather than eagerly jumping to something new. The stories do an amazing job at showing how scary it really is, how it can tear at the mind and drive people mad, turn just about anyone from a loyal citizen or soldier into a depraved cultist more than willing to sacrifice themselves and their once friends. There are also ancillary novels devoted to minor characters in the main series and a mock "historical book" about the war in which the books take place, as well as merchandise such as badges, T-shirts, and special editions of the books themselves. The novel also features the appearance of Brother Kater Holofurnace of the Iron Snakes, a Chapter of Space Marines that previously appeared in Abnett's novel, Brotherhood of the Snake. You have no interest in the Warhammer 40k universe, and are pretty certain you couldn't be persuaded to have interest.

The second novel in the omnibus, Ghostmaker, serves as belated characterisation for the major characters. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. From the destruction of their world to their deadliest battle in the shattered hives of Verghast, this is the first act in the long-running fan favourite series. Although Gaunt is the primary character, the perspective from which the novels are told shifts regularly to encompass a wider view of events – it is usually told from the Imperial point of view, though the perspective is occasionally seen through the eyes of antagonists. The series follows the exploits of Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his regiment of scouts and recon specialists, the Tanith First-and-Only (nicknamed Gaunt's Ghosts), as they serve in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.I absolutely loved Colm Corbec, and the fight through the tunnels underneath Menazoid Epsilon was incredibly harrowing and nerve-wracking, even now after having read it twenty times! On the forge world of Urdesh, the massed forces of the Imperial Crusade engage in a final bloody battle with the Archenemy commander known as the Anarch, and his elite warriors - the barbaric Sons of Sek. In a overall, I know there are people that compare the Dan Abnett series of Gaunts with Sharp series. This series of which I have read 17 novels regards the exploits of a military officer in the far future.

For example, Rawne’s scheming and black marketeering seem pedestrian in the face of literal teleporting demons that can rip you limb from limb, or quiet, whispering horrors that slowly turn men mad.From the gentle Trooper Bragg, whose inability to hit anything with a weapon gave him both the sobriquet “Try Again” and a penchant for carrying around massively heavy weapons, to the slitheringly lethal Major Rawn, willing to stab you in the back and the front simultaneously ands powered by an engine of internal fury, to Colonel Corbec, hearty, bluff and well aware of his role as Gaunt;s counterpart, the Ghosts all have their own personalities; they aren’t all just faceless numbers, but given to us as individuals with their own backstories, needs and desires. But these stories (and going on to educate myself with endless in-depth, 90 minute lore videos on Youtube) really impressed upon me the dark, hopeless, terrifying tragedy of it all. Straight Silver is the first novel in which the Tanith First does not see a campaign through to its conclusion: after successfully taking out the siege-guns in the Seiberq Pocket and repelling a Blood Pact flanking manoeuvre in the Montorq Forest, the Ghosts are withdrawn from the front lines and redeployed to Herodor. Suddenly there is craft, adrenaline and an interesting sense of context in all the carnage that kept me turning pages to find out what happens to who in that poor city.