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Chem Dog

by Callum Davis

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Novel
First published
27 Mar 2026
Length
247 pp · ~4h 32m read
Rating
4.01149 ratingsRating distribution: 1-star: 0 · 2-star: 7 · 3-star: 30 · 4-star: 66 · 5-star: 46. See the reviews on Goodreads (opens in a new tab)22 reviews on Goodreads  (opens in a new tab)
Audiobook
4.6164 ratingsPerformance4.79Story4.469h 28m·Richard ReedReviews on Audible  (opens in a new tab)
ISBN-13
9781836094951
Featuring
Astra MilitarumOrks
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Synopsis

Fewer postings could be worse for Commissar Bastun Hasp than the Savlar Chem-Dogs, penal legion dregs that are far from the shining soldiers of the Imperium he had hoped to lead. He views them as no more than mongrels, their worthless lives only attaining value when being spent in the Emperor’s wars.

Hasp is ordered to lead a kill team of these imperfect tools through enemy-infested territory to secure vital intelligence. The catch? It lies within a former Imperial bastion now fortified by the ork Waaagh! that sacked it. All the commissar and his Chem-Dogs have to do is survive the doomed counter-offensive… that is, if they don’t kill each other first.

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