by Dan Abnett
Book 12 in the Gaunt’s Ghosts series (2009)
Publisher: The Black Library
Twelfth novel in the eternally popular SF series Gaunt’s Ghosts, which follows the story of Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his regiment the Tanith First-and-Only on the bloody battlefields of the far future.
Gaunt and his men are his men are drawn into a web of intrigue and murder surrounding an enemy prisoner.
Pulled back from the front line, the men of the Tanith First-and-Only await news of their next deployment. But when an enemy prisoner is brought in for interrogation, Gaunt is drawn into a murderous web of intrigue. Who can be trusted, and exactly what does the prisoner know that makes him so valuable?
Even on leave, Gaunt’s Ghosts find themselves in trouble… A dangerous enemy prisoner will only speak to Gaunt (who’s apparently dead, if Imperial records are to be believed), and the Ghosts find themselves mixed up with criminal gangs.