Product Description

The human Imperium is a dark, dangerous place - under constant threat of extinction from the evil forces who seek to destroy it. While Space Marines and the Imperial Guard battle aliens among the stars, it is the job of the Inquisition to hunt down the heretics who corrupt society from within. When an Ordo Hereticus warband investigates an inter-planetary people-smuggling operation, it soon finds it is up against some very dangerous enemies indeed!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34868 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 416 pages

About the Author
Sandy Mitchell is a pseudonym for British author Alex Stewart. He has written science fiction and fantasy, television scripts, comics, and gaming material. His television credits include the BBC's high tech espionage series Bugs.

Customer Reviews

Ravenor this isnt
This is not the worst book I Have read by a long shot, but it is sadly lacking when compared to Dan Abnett's offerings (Eisenhorn & Ravenor).
Know Iam no teenage boy nor am I an english teacher but I can agree with the previouse reviewer on some of the dialogue, however this is not a bad way to pass the time but borrow it if you can and save yourself a couple of quid as it is not something you will read again.

Not the author's best work.
The job of the Inquisition is to hunt down the heretics who corrupt the human Imperium from within. Inquisitor Carolus Finurbi of the Ordo Hereticus and his Angelae team are sent to Sepheris Secundus. It is believed than an interplanetary people-trafficking operation is happening there. As Inquisitor Carolus and his team arrive, a jail break is in progress. All the imprisoned psykers have been liberated. That, alone, is enough to keep them busy for quite awhile; however, they soon learn that it is the least of their problems. A particularly lethal "witch" known as Ariadne Thane has been spotted.

Two of the few surviving Imperial Guardsmen, Danuld Drake and Vos Kyrlock, are recruited by Inquisitor Carolus to help his team root out the real evil before Chaos spreads and takes total control.

*** This is not author Sandy Mitchell's best work by a long shot. However, it is still very entertaining. Inquisitors are usually held in fear and high regard, yet I do not feel that Carolus was intimidating in the least. His character simply did not hold true to what those in the Inquisition are suppose to be. I would dearly love to see more of the assassin, Keira, in future stories though. The character of Keira stole the spot light very often. All-in-all, a good beginning, but some changes need to be made in future books if this series has a chance to continue. ***

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

Excellent
If you're a Warhammer 40k fan, you're really gonna love this book. Having read a lot of the 40k based books I would have to say that this ranks right up there with the best of them. It is all too easy to concentrate more on the battles in these books and a lot of the supposed 'characters' end up as mere cannon-fodder, but thankfully that has not happened here. Both the characters and plot are well thought out, and the action never becomes too overpowering for the story as a whole. All in all, a great read, and one i would recommend even to those people who have little or no knowledge of the Warhammer 40k universe.