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Sur les champs de bataille d'Aexe Cardinal, une planète infiltrée par le Chaos, les troupes de la Garde Impériale sont prises dans une impasse aux côtés de leurs alliés. Le colonel-commissaire Ibram Gaunt et son régiment, le Premier et Unique de Tanith, sont jetés tout droit dans l'enfer des tranchées, où la mort guette à chaque instant sous les tirs d'artillerie. À long terme, le seul espoir de survie pour Gaunt et ses fantassins légers est d'accepter une mission si dangereuse que personne ne l'a jamais tentée !

Après la mort de son prédécesseur, le maître de guerre Macaroth poursuit l'offensive impériale visant à libérer les mondes de Sabbat de l'emprise du Chaos. Voltemand, Ramillies, Caligula, Bucephalon; à mesure que se succèdent les zones de combat, Gaunt doit batailler non seulement pour refouler les serviteurs des ténèbres, mais pour gagner les cœurs et la confiance de ses Fantômes.Sur la planète Monthax, une simple mission de reconnaissance dans la jungle soulève une nouvelle intrigue.

Sur le monde éclaté de Verghast, Gaunt et ses Fantômes se retrouvent plongés dans les querelles anciennes d'une guerre civile et le siège acharné d'une immense cité-ruche. Lorsque la trahison frappe de l'intérieur et met à bas les défenses de la ville, les rivalités et la corruption menacent d'amener le Premier et Unique de Tanith au bord de la défaite. Le commissaire impérial Ibram Gaunt doit trouver de nouveaux alliés et de nouveaux Fantômes, s'il veut pouvoir sauver la ruche Vervun du plus grand de tous les dangers : l'invasion par les légions du Chaos.

Leur enquête sur le trafic d'une substance impie connue sous le nom de flect les entraîne toujours plus profondément au cœur de la hiérarchie impériale, tandis que se fait jour une prophétie évoquant l'avènement d'une puissance démoniaque majeure. Confrontés à la redécouverte d'une antique abomination technologique, ils doivent faire tout ce qui est en leur pouvoir pour endiguer la marée du Chaos et empêcher un cataclysme aux proportions galactiques.

L'histoire tumultueuse de l'inquisiteur Gideon Ravenor et de son groupe d'acolytes, aussi efficaces que meurtriers, nous transporte dans le lointain et sinistre futur de l'Imperium de l'Humanité. En enquêtant sur le trafic d'une dangereuse substance, ils vont traverser toutes les strates de la société impériale, depuis les bas-fonds jusqu'aux plus hautes sphères, allant de planètes rongées par la pollution jusqu'à une station spatiale isolée où la loi impériale n'a pas cours, en passant par un monstrueux cirque impérial.

Unaware of the wider Heresy and following the Warmaster's increasingly cryptic orders, Roboute Guilliman returns to Ultramar to muster his Legion for war against the orks massing in the Veridian system. Without warning, their supposed allies in the Word Bearers Legion launch a devastating invasion of Calth, scattering the Ultramarines fleet and slaughtering all who stand in their way. This confirms the worst scenario Guilliman can imagine - Lorgar means to settle their bitter rivalry once and for all.

It is the 31st millennium. Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor, the Imperium of Man hasstretched out across the galaxy. It is a golden age of discovery and conquest. But now, on the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves the front lines, entrusting the great crusade to his favourite son, Horus. Promoted to Warmaster, can the idealistic Horus carry out the Emperor's grand plan, or will this promotion sow the seeds of heresy amongst his brothers?

The Traitor Host of Horus Lupercal tightens its iron grip on the Palace of Terra, and one by one the walls and bastions begin to crumple and collapse. Rogal Dorn, Praetorian of Terra, redoubles his efforts to keep the relentless enemy at bay, but his forces are vastly outnumbered and hopelessly outgunned. Dorn simply cannot defend everything. Any chance of survival now requires sacrifice, but what battles dare he lose so that others can be won? Is there one tactical stroke, one crucial combat, that could turn the tide forever and win the war outright?

Far out on the Eastern Fringe, the realm of Ultramar stands alone. Having weathered the Word Bearers' attack on Calth and the subsequent Shadow Crusade against the Five Hundred Worlds, the Ultramarines primarch Roboute Guilliman now draws all loyalist forces to Macragge as he contemplates a new future for mankind.

Terra is besieged. The outcome of the war lies on a knife edge. The Warmaster Horus’ bloody seven-year crusade has led to this – the cradle of humanity, where he is to kill his father, the Emperor. With the war at this critical juncture, Sanguinius, primarch of the loyalist Blood Angels, braves the horrors of the Warmaster’s flagship, The Vengeful Spirit, with a single purpose in mind – to slay his brother Horus, decapitate the Heresy once and for all, and stop the forces of Chaos from taking Terra.

When his body is hideously damaged in an enemy attack, it looks as though Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor's promising career would be abruptly brought short. Now, encased in a life support sytem that keeps him alive but forever cuts him off from the physical world, Ravenor utilises his formidable mental powers to continue his investigations. Along with his retinue of warriors and assassins, Gideon Ravenor fights to protect an Imperium he can no longer see, hear or feel.

The Tanith First have been pulled back from the front line and are enjoying some well-deserved rest – but that is about to end. An enemy prisoner – one of the deadly Blood Pact – wants to betray his masters, but he will only talk to Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt. Can he be trusted, and what exactly does he know? Gaunt must discover the truth and avert a deadly threat to both his own life and to the Sabbat Worlds Crusade itself.

The Great Angel, Sanguinius, lies slain at his brother's hand. Terra burns as reality itself unravels, and the greatest bastion of civilisation teeters on the brink of annihilation. Desperate defenders gather, banding against the rabid traitor hordes. The Hollow Mountain, host to the pilgrims of Euphrati Keeler, is one of the last redoubts held by the Dark Angels while the unclean host of Typhus lays siege. Malcador the Sigillite sits ablaze on the Golden Throne, trying to buy his master more time. But time is running out...

The Ghosts of the Tanith First-and-Only have been away from the front line for too long. Listless and hungry for action, they are offered a mission that perfectly suits their talents. The objective: the mysterious Salvation's Reach, a remote and impenetrable stronghold concealing secrets that could change the course of the Sabbat Worlds campaign.

When Horus the Warmaster rebelled against the Emperor, the ensuing civil war nearly destroyed the Imperium. War raged across galaxy, pitting Astartes against their battle-brothers in a struggle where death was the only victor. But long before that, the Legions struggled with their identities and the demands of the Great Crusade. From battles with alien invaders to conflicts within a Legion, and even dealing with a wayward primarch, these stories show the battles fought as the Great Crusade draws to a close and the Horus Heresy begins....

The Heresy came to Calth without warning. In just a few hours of betrayal and bloodshed, the proud warriors of the XIIIth Legion - Guilliman's own Ultramarines - were laid low by the treachery of their erstwhile brothers of the XVIIth. Now, as the planet is scoured by solar flares from the wounded Veridian star, the survivors must take the fight to the remaining Word Bearers and their foul allies, or face damnation in the gloomy arcology shelters beneath the planet's surface.

Men of Tanith...do you want to live forever? On the forge world of Urdesh, the massed forces of the Imperial Crusade engage in a final bloody battle with the Archenemy commander known as the Anarch and his elite warriors - the barbaric Sons of Sek. A victory for either side will decide more than just the fate of Urdesh...it will determine the outcome of the entire Sabbat Worlds Crusade.

As the darkness of the war slowly consumes the galaxy, those who still serve the Throne are faced with a struggle for their survival and the continued existence of everything they hold dear. With the threat of the Warmaster's fleet looming ever closer to Terra, it will fall to such heroes to halt the tide, but the enemies arrayed against them are powerful, and the burden of loyalty is great....

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt spent a year fighting as part of the underground resistance on the enemy-held world of Gereon. When he left, he promised that he would bring the forces of the Imperium to liberate Gereon's citizens from their oppressors. Now he has returned, a crusade army at his back, but he finds a world devastated by war and a people irrevocably damaged by the taint of Chaos. Now Gaunt must fight to save Gereon not only from the enemy, but from the Imperium itself.

On the world of Verghast, a grinding war between two hive cities - one loyal to the Imperium, the other fallen to the worship of the Dark Gods - is bolstered by the forces of the Astra Militarum, spearheaded by the Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only. But bitter rivalries and treachery threaten to derail the defence of Vervunhive, and it falls to Gaunt to take command of the Imperial forces and forge victory from an almost certain defeat.