Product Description

A man can stray into evil for many reasons - a lust for power, the pursuit of forbidden knowledge or simply a desire to do the right thing. But they all have one thing in common - once the first steps are taken along the dark path, none ever return. Pursued by fanatical witch hunters and universally hated and feared, the necromancer risks death and damnation in his studies to prolong life. For the successful, however, an eternity of power awaits! Following his last awesome fantasy novel, Magestorm, Jonathan Green charts the descent of a simple physician as he travels the insane path of necromancy! As the darkness grows, he must face up to the truth that he has perhaps gone too far in his quest to cheat death.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189005 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"'Highly recommended.' RPG United"

About the Author
Jonathan Green works as a full-time teacher in West London, England. By night he pens dark tales set in the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. He began writing in 1994 and has penned a number of short stories and articles. He has written Magestorm, Crusade for Armageddon and The Dead and The Damned for the Black Library.

Customer Reviews

A dead good read!
Now, this is the book that I have been waiting for. The undead and the forces of the night have been woefully sidelined in the Black Library's range of Warhammer novels, but here at last is a story told from the point of view of someone experiencing a growing, uncanny and unsettling ability to draw the dead back from the graves.

Without giving too much away, the story starts with a death bed confession and then cuts to events that were set in motion 200 years ago. A young physician travels to the town of Bogenhafen to train, so that he may do all he can to prevent death taking any more of those he loves from him. However, events conspire against him and instead he takes the first steps on the road to necromancy and the Black Arts.

What I like about this book is that it looks at what would make an outwardly seeming 'good' man ever choose to embrace the Dark Arts. It also looks at how a necromancer might start out as, obviously, you don't go from being a novice to Heinrich Kemmler in one day, raising entire armies of the dead.

The grim and gritty realism of the Warhammer world is wonderfully realised in this book and all I can say is that I hope that a sequel is in the works.