288 pages
English language
Published April 1, 2000 by Warhammer.
On Monthax, Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his Tanith First-and-Only await the order to advance into the sweltering jungle and drive the alien eldar from the world. As battle approaches, Gaunt walks the lines, raising his men's spirits and remembering their most heroic deeds - and the tragedies that have dogged Gaunt's Ghosts from the day of their founding on lost Tanith. The day that Gaunt became known as the Ghostmaker.
This is not so much a novel as a collection of short stories illustrating the back-story of most of the main ghosts. Unfortunately, it suffers as a result due to the sheer number of (slightly) incongruous time-skips. While Abnett makes an attempt to pull things together at the end, it doesn't quite come off.
3/5 books
