Sanctus Reach

by Guy Haley and Ben Counter

Anthology in the Space Marine Battles series, published 2014
Publisher: Black Library

The orks of the Red Waaagh have come to the Sanctus Reach and death follows them. As Grukk Face-Rippa and his green tide fall upon Imperial worlds, it falls to a few warriors to stand against them. The Space Marines of the Obsidian Glaives make a final stand against the alien hordes, while the brave men of the Astra Militarum and the noble Knights of Alaric Prime struggle to repel the greenskin invaders from their planet. But hope is not lost, as the savage and noble Space Wolves arrive to bring an end to Grukk and his rampage.

The Red Waaagh! has come to the Sanctus Reach. Grukk Face-Rippa, an ork warboss as cunning as he is brutal, leads a mighty invasion force to Alaric Prime and its sister worlds. As the earth shakes beneath their assault, the warriors of the Astra Militarum, the noble Imperial Knight houses of Alaric Prime and the savage Space Wolves lead the counter-attack – and Grukk faces a threat from within his ranks as Big Mek Mogrok plans to oust him and take control of the Red Waaagh! for himself.

Waaagh! Ahem, sorry, got carried away. This collection contains tons of tales set during the ork invasion of the Sanctus Reach, including a first from Black Library, a novella told entirely from the point of view of the orks themselves… As well as that, these tales chart the death of a Space Marine Chapter, inquisitors and assassins on secretive missions and the thorny issue of what to do when Ragnar Blackmane gets lost in his rage and endangers his brother Space Wolves.

Sanctus Reach contains the novellas ‘Evil Sun Rising’ and ‘Blood on the Mountain’ and six short stories exploring the various fronts of the vicious war for the Sanctus Reach.