The Guns of Tanith (Novel)
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Guns of Tanith is the fifth novel in the Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett.
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In the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the heretical forces of Chaos are fighting back hard. Dangerously overstretched, their supply lines cut by degenerate enemy troops, the Imperial forces grind to a halt. Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First-and-Only must recapture Phantine, a world rich in promethium but so ruined by pollution that the only way to attack is via a dangerous – and untried – aerial assault. Pitted against deadly opposition and a lethal environment, how can Gaunt and his men possibly survive?
Synopsis
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The following paragraphs contain spoilers for: | The Guns of Tanith (Novel) |
The novel begins with the Tanith First training to take part in the airborne assault on Cirenholm, a dome-city perched above Phantine's toxic Scald. The archenemy's elite Blood Pact have captured the city, which the Imperial forces plan to use as a staging ground for their campaign to reclaim Ouranberg, one of Phantine's largest cities and a major source of promethium. After the Ghosts successfully infiltrate the Blood Pact's defences and prevent a disastrous loss for the Imperium, Lord-General Van Voytz re-considers his approach on the Ouranberg invasion.
A number of Ghosts are hand-picked to form specialist kill-teams, placed in a regime of additional jump-training and covertly deployed into Ouranberg prior to the invasion. Codenamed Operation Larisel, their mission is to kill Sagittar Slaith; the Chaos commander of the Blood Pact holding Ouranberg. Doing so will break the morale of the Chaos worshippers and enable the Imperial forces to recapture Ouranberg with greater ease. The task is made more daunting with the prospect of thousands of Blood Pact troopers and Loxatl mercenaries standing between them and their target. However, the rest of the Tanith First face their own trials as they await deployment; a great unease is brewing between the Tanith and the Verghastite soldiers, and a crime case involving several Ghosts highlights this divide.
The Phantine XX Fighter Corps introduced in The Guns of Tanith appear in a spin-off novel - titled Double Eagle. This is also the first time where the Loxatl are described, as Blood Pact mercenaries aiding in the occupation of Ouranberg.
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Second Edition cover by Adrian Smith
Ebook cover
Sources
| The Founding | A Ghost Return • First and Only • Of Their Lives in the Ruins of Their Cities • Ghostmaker • Necropolis • In Remembrance |
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| The Saint | Honour Guard • The Guns of Tanith • Straight Silver • Sabbat Martyr |
| The Lost | Traitor General • His Last Command • The Armour of Contempt • Only in Death • The Iron Star |
| The Victory | Blood Pact • Salvation's Reach • The Warmaster • The Anarch |
| Ghost Dossiers | The Vincula Insurgency |
| Anthologies | Sabbat Worlds • Sabbat Crusade • Sabbat War |
| Other Short Stories | Vermilion Level • Killbox • Viduity • Ghosts and Bad Shadows |
| Background Books | The Sabbat Worlds Crusade • Tactica Imperialis |
| Spin-offs | Double Eagle • Interceptor City • Titanicus • Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint • Urdesh: The Magister and the Martyr • Volpone Glory |
