Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First-and-Only are back in action on a shrine-world of the deepest tactical and spiritual importance. But the vile forces of Chaos will never allow them to hold their prize for long and, as the counter-attack rages, Gaunt is sent after the most priceless relic on the planet: the ancient remains of the saint who first led humanity to the Sabbat Worlds.
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It's a new start for Gaunt's Ghosts. With a whole load of new troopers in the regiment and a dangerous mission – a race against time to retrieve holy relics from a dying world – Gaunt and his men (and women now!) have their work cut out for them.