The most heroic Commissar in perhaps the entire Astra Militarum is back this week, as his first ever adventure returns to print in a magnificent special edition.
Ciaphas Cain: For the Emperor
Almost 20 years after it was first released, Black Library and Sandy Mitchell have prepared a luxurious special edition of the novel that introduced a legendary hero of the Imperium, Officio Prefectus Commissar Ciaphas Cain.
On an Imperial outpost world at the very fringes of T’au space, the renowned Commissar and his fractious regiment of Valhallan Guard, newly created from the remnants of two devastated units, find themselves in the middle of a war. As the Astra Militarum struggle to contain worldwide civil insurrection, can the wily Commissar identify the real villain before the planet is lost to the Imperium forever?
This gorgeous volume contains two stories, the novel For the Emperor and the short story Rotten to the Core, both available in print for the first time in years. Limited to strictly 2,000 individually numbered copies, each signed by the author, this edition comes with a special hardback cover, a ribbon bookmark, and many other fancy details.
The Chapter’s Due (MP3)
Another classic tale returns to Black Library. Captain Uriel Ventris of the Ultramarines stars in The Chapter’s Due by Graham McNeill, which arrives in audiobook format for the first time.
Uriel Ventris has returned to the Chapter's homeworld of Macragge, but there is little respite as the Ultramarines are thrust back into battle against the Chapter's greatest nemesis. The traitorous Iron Warriors, led by renegade Warsmith Honsou, have gathered a massive warband, and their target is the realm of Ultramar. The merciless Iron Warriors have one sole objective – total annihilation of the Imperial forces. It is a final showdown between legendary Space Marines, and Uriel Ventris must take on the might of Honsou if he is to save his Chapter's homeworld.