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Cover of The Bookkeeper's Skull by Justin D. Hill

The Bookkeeper's Skull

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Novel
First published
15 Jan 2022
Length
208 pp · ~3h 49m read
Rating
3.83332 ratingsRating distribution: 1-star: 3 · 2-star: 26 · 3-star: 78 · 4-star: 144 · 5-star: 81. See the reviews on Goodreads (opens in a new tab)43 reviews on Goodreads  (opens in a new tab)
Audiobook
4.45126 ratingsPerformance4.78Story4.444h 32m·Matthew HuntReviews on Audible  (opens in a new tab)
ISBN-13
9781789998313

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Synopsis

A Warhammer Horror Novel Follow in the footsteps of Rudgard Howe, an enforcer cadet who, while on their first mission, and embroiled in an embittered succession battle back home, uncovers a heinous sanguinary cult… READ IT BECAUSE In the grim darkness of the far future, horror lies in the most unlikely of places, as a routine investigation becomes something all the more sinister. THE STORY On the captital world of Potence, young enforcer cadet Rudgard Howe is caught up in a bitter internecine feud to inherit his father's position of Chief Enforcer. As the tithe fleets approach, he is sent on his first mission to ensure that the planet's distant agri-facilities fulfil their quotas to the God-Emperor. Farmed with serfs and managed by ex-Militarum soldiers, the agri-facilities are places of shocking brutality and hopelessness. But when he is sent to the outlying farmstead of Thorsarbour, Rudgard discovers a community where the crops are left to rot as the inhabitants indulge in the bloody ecstasy of a sanguinary cult. As Rudgard imposes the strict Lex Imperialis upon the farmstead, he begins to uncover a place where sanity is rapidly slipping. Just a single step into his nightmarish mission though, a series of cruel deaths threatens to dismantle everything he has ever known about the Imperium, his faith in the Emperor, and the strength of his very soul.