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Shadows of Treachery (The Horus Heresy Book 22) Kindle Edition

by John French (Author), Graham McNeill (Author), Dan Abnett (Author), Format: Kindle Edition
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From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself – the greatest war in the history of mankind rages on. While the traitor Legions continue their campaign of terror across the galaxy, preparations are made for the defence of the Imperial Palace and the final, inevitable reckoning that must yet come between Horus and the Emperor... This anthology spans the entire Horus Heresy, with short stories from Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and Gav Thorpe, as well as two brand new novella-length tales. Learn the fate of Rogal Dorn’s fleet originally sent to Isstvan III in ‘The Crimson Fist’ by John French, and descend deeper into the darkness of the Night Lords Legion in ‘Prince of Crows’ by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.

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This anthology spans the entire Horus Heresy, with short stories from Dan Abnett, Graham McNeill and Gav Thorpe, as well as two brand new novella-length tales. Learn the fate of Rogal Dorn's fleet originally sent to Isstvan III and descend deeper into the darkness of the Night Lords Legion.

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    The Horus Heresy
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Eric S. Brown is the author of World War of the Dead, Season of Rot, and Barren Earth. Some of his past works include Cobble, Madmen’s Dreams, and Unabridged Unabashed and Undead: The Best of Eric S. Brown, among others. His short fiction has been published hundreds of times and he was featured as an expert on the walking dead in the book, Zombie CSU. Eric lives in NC with his loving wife, Shanna, and his son, Merrick.

Nick Kyme is a writer and editor. He lives in Nottingham where he began a career at Games Workshop on White Dwarf magazine as a staff writer and journalist. Nick's writing credits include the Warhammer 40,000 Tome of Fire trilogy featuring the Salamanders, Fall of Damnos, the Space Marine Battles novel, his Warhammer Fantasy-based dwarf novels and several short stories. He has also penned several short stories for the New York Times bestselling Horus Heresy series.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N94EMUJ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Library
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Nov. 15 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Book 22 of 54 ‏ : ‎ The Horus Heresy
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John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. He has written sixteen novels over a nearly two decades long career, notably the Ahriman series and Horusian Wars trilogies set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and five novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently with The Solar War. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with the audio drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies.

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  • Susan Cook
    5.0 out of 5 stars It's Got to Be Good
    Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2014
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    It's got be good, my son has all of the books and he is particular.
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  • Eric Gagnon
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in Canada on November 25, 2022
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    Good, but not great. Curze is a strange Primarch….. first time I read something about the Night Lords…. And they looks like Drow in D&D. With their kind of society.
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  • Umberto
    5.0 out of 5 stars Antologia di racconti
    Reviewed in Italy on April 17, 2018
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    Una raccolta di racconti che spazia dal sito del massacro alla terra tutti di buona qualità, che ampliano le vicende dell'eresia fuori dalla storyline principale..livello più che buono , consigliato
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  • Christophe Fontaine
    3.0 out of 5 stars Du bon et du moins bon
    Reviewed in France on June 2, 2013
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    Les compilations de plusieurs petites histoires amènent à la fois quelques pépites mais plus souvent de la lecture moyenne. Je préfère personnellement les vrais romans, ou l'auteur a plus de temps pour mettre en place les personnages.
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  • Christopher
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    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2023
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    This came much sooner then expected and in better condition then expected!
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  • Andy Durcan
    5.0 out of 5 stars awesome!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2025
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    Great collection - felt a bit oddly cobbled together but the afterword does an excellent job of explaining why! Loved the introduction to the night lords
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  • JPS
    4.0 out of 5 stars A good collection of stories
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2012
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    Unlike previous reviewers, I found that this book was a good collection of seven short stories and I have therefore rated it four stars. I find that it is rather harsh, and somewhat unfair, to downgrade a book just because it contains stories that have already been released in other formats, whether audiobooks or any other format for that matter. This is also somewhat misleading for potential readers to some extent because it does not mean that the stories are not good, even in cases when they might have been released for the first time several years ago. Having stating this, it is also true that Black Library could have mentioned at the very least the titles of the stories included in the volume and did not do so.

    A second area of disagreement with some previous reviewers may be partly about personal opinions but also in part about consistency. A number of reviewers, including myself, have been complaining that the Horus Heresy series of books had, after a Thousand Sons (book 12 of the series) got to a point where the story did not seem to progress over the next half a dozen volumes. The same story was sometimes told, but from a different perspective, or the implications of the same event (the Istvan V treason and slaughter) were spinned volume after volume. More recent volumes have addressed this concern to some extent, but the suspicion that Black Library authors may be delaying the final assault on Terra that all of their readers are impatiently wanting for lingers. This is probably another reason for the rather lukewarm reviews and ratings that this book has attracted, although I also found that these were rather unfair, or even unjustified.

    I, for one, was almost put off by these reviews and considered cancelling my order for this book, although I had not read or listened to any of these stories before. I am happy that I didn't because the collection is worthwhile, even for the stories that are not very original. Essentially, I found that this collection of two novella (The Crimson Fist by John French and Prince of Crows by Aaron Demski-Bowden) and five short stories (three from Graham McNeill and one each from Dan Abnett and Gav Thorpe) were rather good, although I will not discuss and rate each of the stories to avoid spoilers.

    All of the stories fill in gaps left from previous Horus Heresy volumes. The Dark King shows us why Konrad Curze got to destroy Nostromo whereas Prince of Crows, also about the Night Lords, shows us why the Dark Angels were unable to rally Terra and join in its defence. The Crimson Fist shows us what happened to the Imperial Fist fleet despatched by Rogal Dorn to help put down the rebellion while also showing the relationship and interactions between the Primarch and Sigismund, his first captain (the Prince of Crows also illustrates this relationship between Primarch and First Captain, but within the Night Lords, allowing for an interesting contrast between the two). Abnett's The Lighting Tower tells of the fortification of the Imperial Palace, filling in a gap (at last!) that the Outcast Dead had left open. Raven's Flight tells the story of how Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard, managed to escape Istvan V with the remnants of his Legion after putting up a spirited fight, in a sort of prequel to Deliverance Lost. The Kaban Project, which is a prequel of Graham McNeill's masterful Mechanicus, also fills in a gap because it explains why a large faction of the Mechanicum (or even most of it) sided with Horus and betrayed the Emperor, something that was left unclear in Graham's previous novel. Finally, even Death of a Silversmith, which is maybe one of the less original and weakest stories, is useful in its own way by showing indirectly to what extent the heresy plot and Horus' contamination was helped by the demise of Hastur Sejanus.

    There are also two other features that I found of particular interest. One was the emphasis on the Night Lords and their twisted monstrous Primarch, with Graham McNeill matching Demski-Bowden all the way, and the latter let us learn much more about the semi-legendary First Captain Sevatar, of which we had heard quite a bit already in his Talos trilogy. Another is a relatively new focus on Perturabo, of which we had seen little up to now in the HH series.

    So, despite a few glitches and physical impossibilities, such as spaceships burning in outer space during battles, I found that this collection was very much worth a buy (provided, of course, you have not alreadey read or listened to the stories!) and was a very good read, even if not the very best of the HH series.
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