The Hellhounds of the Cadian 71st regiment face the diabolical xenos machinery of the tau. The regiments of the Astra Militarum form the backbone of the Emperor's armies, defending the Imperium across thousands of battlefronts in a war that has no ending. The soldiers of the Cadian 71st regiment thought that they'd seen it all. That is, until they uncovered a Planetary Governor in league with the alien tau. With the odds stacked against them, Captain Hawkins and his men must fight with both bravery and brutality if they are to defeat an enemy that always seems to be one step ahead of them.

Author Biography

Graham McNeill has written more Horus Heresy novels than any other Black Library author! His canon of work includes False Gods, Vengeful Spirit and his New York Times bestseller A Thousand Sons. Graham's Ultramarines series, featuring Captain Uriel Ventris, is now six novels long, and he has also written a Mars trilogy featuring the Adeptus Mechanicus. For Warhammer, he has written The Legend of Sigmar trilogy, the second volume of which won the 2010 David Gemmell Legend Award.