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The Last Ditch

Setting
Warhammer 40,000
Type
Novel
First published
7 Feb 2012
Length
320 pp · ~5h 52m read
Rating
4.141,881 ratingsRating distribution: 1-star: 2 · 2-star: 39 · 3-star: 342 · 4-star: 806 · 5-star: 692. See the reviews on Goodreads (opens in a new tab)74 reviews on Goodreads  (opens in a new tab)
Audiobook
4.881,611 ratingsPerformance4.96Story4.829h 29m·Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Toby Longworth, Andrew James SpoonerReviews on Audible  (opens in a new tab)
ISBN-13
9781849701259
Featuring
Astra MilitarumOrks

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Synopsis

Commissar Cain returns to an icy planet to crush a new wave of ork attacks, but inadvertently disturbs a far greater threat which has lain frozen and dormant for centuries in a new hardcover edition. Imperial commissar Ciaphas Cain returns to Nusquam Fundumentibus to crush the ork attacks which have been plaguing the frozen planet. But when his ship crashes into the wastelands outside the capital it disturbs a far greater enemy, one which has lain dormant under the permafrost since long before the Imperium came to this world, and could now threaten the whole sector. Faced with ongoing greenskin raids and keeping an over-enthusiastic novice commissar under control, Cain must rally his men and confront whatever emerges from beneath the rapidly melting ice...