Straight Silver (6) (Gaunt's Ghosts)
Straight Silver (6) (Gaunt's Ghosts) book cover

Straight Silver (6) (Gaunt's Ghosts)

Paperback – June 28, 2016

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Price
$126.97
Format
Paperback
Pages
416
Publisher
Games Workshop
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1784963781
Dimensions
5 x 1 x 8 inches
Weight
10.2 ounces

Description

About the Author Dan Abnett has written over fifty novels, including Anarch, the latest instalment in the acclaimed Gaunt’s Ghosts series. He has also written the Ravenor and Eisenhorn books, the most recent of which is The Magos. For the Horus Heresy, he is the author of Horus Rising, Legion, The Unremembered Empire, Know No Fear and Prospero Burns, the last two of which were both New York Times bestsellers. He also scripted Macragge’s Honour, the first Horus Heresy graphic novel, as well as numerous audio dramas and short stories set in the Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer universes. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.

Features & Highlights

  • Commissar Gaunt and his men undertake a seemingly suicidal mission in the blood-soaked trenches of the 41st Millennium.On the battlefields of Aexe Cardinal, the struggling forces of the Imperial Guard are locked in a deadly stalemate with the dark armies of Chaos. Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his regiment, the Tanith First and Only, are thrown headlong into this living hell of trench warfare, where death from lethal artillery is always just a moment away. The only chance for Gaunt and his lightly armed scouts to survive is to volunteer for a mission so dangerous that no one else dares accept it.

Customer Reviews

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Keeps getting better ...

My favorite thing about the 40K universe are the WWI overtones. I especially enjoy when a book or story pushes that to the forefront ("15 Hours," for instance). This is a book told against the backdrop of trench warfare.

My favorite character in the Gaunts' Ghosts series of books is Hlaine Larkin. I've nervously turned every page he was on since one specific scene in "First & Only" made him jump out to me. (Nervously because, obviously, no one is safe in these books - Gaunt, I guess, at least until the final book comes out, but, hell, I wouldn't put it past Abnett to kill Gaunt off & keep the name "in memory.") In this book, Larkin shines probably more than any other character because of what he witnessed in the previous book.

So this is essentially everything needed to make me read like a madman, drool over every page. Previous reviewers have it right, the ending is rushed, but that's kind of the way of the GG stuff. Overall it's the journey that matters with Abnett, not the destination. Everyone is kind of being pushed to where they need to be at the end of the "Saint" storyline here. Excellent writing, beautiful and evocative imagery.

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