The Outcast Dead
The Horus Heresy
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4.3 • 44 Ratings
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- £5.49
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
The galaxy is burning. The Emperor’s loyal primarchs prepare to do battle with Warmaster Horus and his turncoat Legions on the black sand of Isstvan. Such dark times herald new and yet more terrible things still to come, and when Astropath Kai Zulane unwittingly learns a secret that threatens to tip the balance of the war, he is forced to flee for his life. Alongside a mysterious band of renegades, he plunges into the deadly underworld of Terra itself, hunted like a criminal by those he once trusted. In the face of betrayal, Kai must decide where his own loyalties lie and whether some truths should be buried forever.
Customer Reviews
Very different and great for it
Coming across more as a chase/conspiracy thriller with a big dash of inception style mental landscapes and dreamworlds - this is the first proper non-war novel in the Heresy series and though it still has a few space marines in it, it's not focused on them but the astropaths, navigators, proto-inquisitors and the humble masses. It also illuminates a lot more about the emperor in a very clever way avoiding a direct show and tell. There are the odd few inconsistencies that you need to overlook (like a lot of thrillers you have to accept that the chased can evade even the best hunters and that for some reason all but three of the emperors elite bodyguard have gone on holiday apparently) but beyond that it pulls in vast amounts of the Heresy, lots of epic detail but keeps it in an intimate scale.