3.5. Has a different charm from the Eisenhorn trilogy. Still great.

Dan Abnett is my favorite 40K author and this book did not disappoint. This book drove home the idea that the world of 40K is late stage capitalism pushed to the extreme. This is a good investigative adventure. Recommended for fans of 40K.

Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor is one of the finest agents in the Inquisition, the former protege of the infamous (and now missing) Gregor Eisenhorn. Badly wounded in the catastrophe on Thracian Primaris, Ravnor is restricted to a life-support chair but his formidable psi-powers remain undimmed and his allies and agents are among the best in their fields.Ravenor's latest case leads him and his team to Eustis Majoris, capital world of subsector Angelus, on the trail of 'flects', a new drug that induce...

During the last few weeks, I've hit something of a slump in my reading. Usually I can go through books at a fairly fast clip of a book every week or week and a half, but during this latter half of the year I've barely managed to make a book every two weeks. This has a lot to do with the kinds of books I've been reading. For the most part, I've been happy with them, but there is always something about them that trips me up: some flaw in characterization, or some plot point, that makes me want to

A straightforward "inquisitorial procedural". Ravenor and his team investigate the mysterious drug trade in "flects", highly-addictive warp-tainted shards of glass being pumped into Petrograd by persons unknown. The team rattle some cages, piss off the wrong people, and have a few scraps. I won't spoil the ending but it doesn't take a great leap to imagine how it goes. This is textbook Abnett, Black Library's talisman and most talented writer by a significant margin. I must say I did not enjoy i...

This started out slow & was a little hard to get into, but once the characters took on some definition, it picked up. Currently reading the second in the trilogy & it is much better.

I found this a very good, tense read. Started reasonably strongly, but became a real page turner after about half way through, so I couldn't put it down :) Like Playing Patience, not just from first person point of view, so get to see events through many perspectives, and also get more tension through this - with the Eisenhorn books, given they are writings by Eisenhorn, you knew he was going to survive at least, but at times it became a lot more questionable in here regarding Ravenor himself. I...

The first book in Dan Abnett’s second Inquisition trilogy, Ravenor is another stone-cold Black Library classic, a smart and hugely enjoyable story in its own right but also a neat continuation of characters familiar to anyone who’s read the Eisenhorn trilogy. Set some time after his reappearance towards the end of Hereticus, it sees Gideon Ravenor – now a full inquisitor in his own right – and his entourage on Eustis Majoris, investigating the illicit trade of a strange narcotic. As they unravel...

Another good WH40K from Dan Abnett. I felt like there was a missed opportunity to do a more detective noir theme set in this universe rather than the usually "I shoot you, you're head go boom". Still a good read.

This was given to me by a friend and I hadn't read any Abnett or was familiar with WarHammer. I found it slow (maybe because I knew nothing about anything) to start but then really enjoyed the world building and characters. It reads like TV where there is always something happening to keep you engaged and watching for next weeks episode! He gave me the omnibus so I will keep reading!! If you like big universe stories, can deal with sometimes confusing side stories referencing other books/people

A great 40k work in the same vein as the Eisenhorn trilogy. Part detective story, part action adventure. As always Abnett does a masterful job, creating a rich, detailed world or character in just a few sentences. This book is properly grimdark, especially the first section in Petropolis, but Abnett blends the action with the intrigue seamlessly to draw you in. I think the character of Ravenor is really good, but by necessity the perspective flits from one character to another, and this can be a...

It's hard to not judge this one against the Eisenhorn trilogy, as it is a spin-off, so I'm quite torn as to how to rate this. It was a decent start to a trilogy but with some minor mishaps. The first third of the book is extremely disjointed and the plot isn't exactly coherent. It all comes together in the end, but it definitely could have used some more honing on fluidity. Ravenor himself is quite an interesting protagonist, but I found I didn't like him (or his cohort) nearly as much as Eisenh...

Now before you get angry with my two star review or pass this book up, remember a two star review means I found this book only O.K.The main reason I found this book only ok is because of our main character Ravenor. Ravenor is a crippled member of the Imperial Inquisition and a powerful psycher. My problem with him is that it is really hard to get behind a character that is basically confined to a floating casket and takes over the minds of others if something physical is required of him. The boo...

The extended Eisenhorn series is fantastic. I enjoyed every Eisenhorn book and this is no exception. Abnett has built a wonderful and vibrant cast of characters with Harlon Nayl and Ravenor standing out particularly to me. Another amazing Abnett novel can't wait to read the rest of the series.

I can't imagine there have been too many comparative reviews of George Elliot and Dan Abnett in the entirety of recorded history, and it may just be that I finished them both on the same day, but I was struck with both this and Adam Bede how the shadow cast by a stronger work can affect your enjoyment of other bits and pieces by the same author. In the same way as Adam Bede shared many of the strengths of Middlemarch, but a number of faults cast in a weaker light. Book one of the Ravenor trilogy...

Very different from every other Warhammer book I’ve ever read. More mystery than action with detective like characters rather than super human killing machines. Abnett does a great job keeping everything flowing and fresh and I totally thought I knew where the story was going into the rug was pulled out from under me and things expanded in a massive way. Great story overall.

On-point characterisation of the stifling nature of a faceless bureaucracy, filled with make work involving parsing of nonsense (though it turns out that the entire set up had a more insidious purpose..). Mind-numbing to the point that hardened bounty hunter Nayl would rather jump right into a raging firefight than repeat his infiltration.Familiar faces from Eisenhorn return, new faces are introduced, the same good writing persists.___"Don't think I can handle another day like that, Gideon. I me...

This book was amazing!! Okay, now that out of the way: you might have noticed that many people are torn when writing reviews about this book. I think I know why, and I'll explain. I've also came from the Eisenhorn trilogy and the first time when I started this book I put it down after a 100 pages and didn't pick it up till I read "The Magos". At first Ravenors character was distant next to Eisenhorns, and you also don't really meet him, as the story mostly follows his associates. It takes a lot

Gideon Ravenor was the infamous Gregor Eisenhorn's most capable pupil. A powerful psyker he was severely wounded in an event called simply the 'atrocity'. Now forever bound to the life support systems of his armoured and fully enclosed chair he still hunts down the enemies of the Emperor. Even more than his former master, however, he is reliant on his team of agents to carry out the investigations.This time his team are hunting the source of the narcotic known as 'flects'. Not merely highly addi...

My initial thought on this was simple; I realised immediately that I missed Eisenhorn. Actually, it starts off very intriguing before leveling out to what we can call "standard inquisitor work" and those first few chapters might have been my favourite part of the book.As we've come to expect from Abnett, this is another action packed story with an excellent cast and a clever plot. I was fairly confused by Ravenor's various forms, I'm not sure that I followed everything properly but it also felt