The Guns of Tanith

Dan Abnett

Book 5 of Gaunt's Ghosts

Language: English

Publisher: Black Library

Published: Jan 1, 2002

Description:

In the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the heretical forces of Chaos are fighting back hard. Dangerously overstretched, their supply lines cut by degenerate enemy troops, the Imperial forces grind to a halt. Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First-and-Only must recapture Phantine, a world rich in promethium but so ruined by pollution that the only way to attack is via a dangerous and untried aerial assault. Pitted against deadly opposition and a lethal environment, how can Gaunt and his men possibly survive?

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The Ghosts are thrown into a new kind of war, sent into battle on grav-chutes to fight on platforms far above a toxic atmosphere. And the atmosphere in the regiment isn't much better as the feud between Mad Larkin and the really insane Lijah Cuu heats up... and turns deadly.