Product Description

This gripping new novel from the author of the action-packed Fire Warrior is sure to set pulses racing as it reveals the horrific, war-torn future of Warhammer 40,000 from the point of view of the forces of evil! Commander Sahaal of the Night Lords Chaos Space Marines is a walking nightmare in power armour. Driven by ten thousand years of hatred and bitterness, his goal is an ancient relic that will help him reclaim dominion over his armies. The only person standing in his way is Mita Ashyn, a young, idealistic telepath and agent on the Inquisition of the Imperium. Set on the teeming hive world of Equixus, both opponents begin to realise they can't even trust their own comrades when ultimate power is up for grabs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154448 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-13
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
"'Great SF from a very dark future.' Starlog"

About the Author
Simon Spurrier has few insightful recollections from his wild youth because he's still in the middle of it. Since discovering that depressing the buttons on a keyboard could create all manner of interesting squiggles on a screen, he's become a frequent contributor to cult comic 2000 AD and the Black Library.

Customer Reviews

Ave Dominus Nox
This book is not only great as a Warhammer 40.000 novel but generally good as Sience Fiction. I paints a picture of the Renegade Space Marines as Night Lord Commander Zso Sahaal is awakend to find that he has spent 10.000 years in imprisonment. His ship also carried an important item from the Founding of the Imperium. The book asks the question who betrayed who during the great Heresy and portrays Konrad Cruze as a victim. With these great events in the background we are carried through an adventure where an interrogator is pitted against her Inquisitor Lord master in the search of a monster as ritual and apperently random killings occur in the Hive world as the ancient Night Hunter starts a campaign of fear and builds an army among the dispossed in the underhive, using fanatical Imperial Dogma to his own ends.

Easily among the 3 best Wh40K novels.

I agree, one of the best Black Library books since Eisenhorn
A very well written tale that builds on the character of the Nightlords and dark universe of the Imperium. It is the kind of book that built the warhammer 40K franchise rather than the kind of book that would not sell without the franchise brand.

This book surprised me - I loved it
This book really surprised me.

I like a good Space Marine book and had only really read the Horus Heresy and Space Wolf Omnibuses before starting this.

I was expecting more of the same (which I thoroughly enjoy) but Lord of the Night (as one of the other reviewers says) is an excellent piece of stand alone sci-fi.

The story is one that shows that Good and Evil (very hazy in WH40k anyway) is a matter of perspective and I found myself rooting for, what in other WH40k books, would be the bad guy.

A cracking, good read. Loved it.