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Fear to Tread Cover art by Neil Roberts. Author James Swallow Performed by Gareth Armstrong Publisher Black Library Series Horus Heresy Series Preceded by Know No Fear Followed by Angel Exterminatus Released August 28, 2012 Pages 516 Editions August 2012 softcover ISBN 9781849701969 2012 audiobook ISBN 9780857878038

Fear to Tread is the eighteenth novel in the Horus Heresy Series, written by James Swallow. It was released on August 28, 2012.

The novel became the eighth volume in the Horus Heresy series to make the New York Times bestseller list (after Graham McNeill's A Thousand Sons, Swallow's Nemesis, Aaron Dembski-Bowden's The First Heretic, Dan Abnett's Prospero Burns, the anthology Age of Darkness, Abnett's Know No Fear, and the anthology The Primarchs). It has also received the highest ranking to date (#13) of any Horus Heresy volume to make the list.^[1]

Cover Description

There is war on Signus Prime; Horus sends the Blood Angels to the Signus system, where an army of Khornate daemons waits for them. The Warmaster's plan is to use the flaw in the Blood Angels' gene-seed – which will later be known as the Red Thirst – to turn them to the worship of the Blood God. At the height of the battle, Sanguinius fights with the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha. The Blood Angels fight for survival of their minds and bodies...

Related Publications

• Black Library
• Horus Heresy Series

Sources

• 1: Black Library's September 17, 2012 Blog Entry (last accessed September 17, 2012)