Product Description

Dedicated to serving the Imperium, the Iron Hands, the most powerful members of the Adeptus Astartes, will do anything to remove all weaknesses, even practicing bionic augmentation on their own bodies in order to achieve a physical perfection to match their iron will. Original.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #342984 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 416 pages

Customer Reviews

A Worthy Addition To The 40k Universe
I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would. Like his other book 'Crusade for Armageddon' Jonathan Green takes for his inspiration a recent campaign run by Games Workshop and keeps reasonably faithful to the events detailed in this event. Set at the opening of the Eye of Terror campaign, rather than try to detail the actions of the entire chapter, this book instead focuses on a small group of Marines reluctantly taking on a mission that takes them away from the front lines.

Added to these apocalyptic events is the mistrust and conflicting goals between the various Imperial Organisations which leaves you with a great story with just enough tension to keep you reading.

As well as this the book includes explanations of the background to the forty-first millennium as a whole as well as those parts of the universe that it deals with, making this book is accessible to veterans of the hobby as well as those to who have only recently joined.

Utterly Terrible, Even by 40k Standards
Not worth the effort, really.

The core cast are unlikable and dull, the plot meanders, the resolution is unsatisfying. Coupled with a poor writing style, it leads to a book that is perhaps one of the worst published by Games Workshops spin-off wing.

Save your money and pick up something by Abnett or Graham McNeil, as they're fine examples of thumping great reads that, whilst still pulp, are far finer than this piece of tat.

Par for the course
Another space marine book and very similar to the others. In fact I can't distinguish too easily between them any more.

This one centres on a rather unhappy chap who goes off on a suicidal mission to stop chaos forces from doing nasty things while his homeworld is under attack. Plenty of gore and violence and it focuses on a Chapter which we don't usually hear much about, so it's good to have a new perspective. Unfortunately their very nature is a bit of a handicap to characterisation.

Solid enough , but the writing is not up to the standard of King or Abnett and the story is simply not original enough to stand out.