13th Legion (Warhammer 40000 Last Chancers) [Paperback]

Gav Thorpe (Author)

Book Description

Series: Warhammer 40000 Last Chancers | Publication Date: December 1, 2000

Science fiction novel set in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe.

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About the Author

Gav Thorpe is the chief game developer of the Warhammer design team. He has also written a batch of stories for the bimonthly anthology Inferno! including the earlier adventures of Kage and the Last Chancers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 274 pages
• Publisher: Black Library; paperback / softback edition (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841541397
• ISBN-13: 978-1841541396
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,893,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I don't play the game but I found my first Warhammer 40K novel to be a blast!., February 13, 2006

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This review is from: 13th Legion (Warhammer 40,000) (Mass Market Paperback)

The hook for Warhammer 40,000, "In the grim darkness of the far-future there is only war" says it all. It's the 41st millennia and mankind is besieged on its many galactic fronts by different alien enemies, demons from the nether-region-like Warp, and threatened from within by civil war. As harsh as the Imperiam is, it's the last hope for the survival of the human race.

Thorpe takes the "Dirty Dozen" plot and pumps it chuck-full of super steroids and drops it in this WH40K universe, to create the penal legion, lovingly nick-named the Last Chancers. Lt. Kage and his fellow convicted criminals may have been better-off to serve out their life sentences in various prisons then to have been given a chance for redemption by the heartless Colonel Schaeffer. The pardons they've been promised for their military-service is always one more unknown and miserable battle-field away. Will they all only achieve absolution for their sins post-humanously or are any of them hard enough to survive to the Colonel's ultimate plan?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dude, where's my arm?, December 15, 2003

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Ty (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 13th Legion (Warhammer 40,000) (Mass Market Paperback)

Bloody carnage? Hopeless battles against impossible odds? Violent psychopaths let loose on the battlefield? Yes, this book has all these things, and manages to weave it all into a pretty fun plot with interesting characters! Our protagonist is Kage, the psychopathic member of the 13th penal legion, a unit led by the mysterious Colonol on an endless succession of suicide missions. Quite the departure from Dan Abnett's more conventional infantry stories, this book is all about the anti-hero.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, except..., June 16, 2002

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This review is from: 13th Legion (Warhammer 40,000) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was a really good book, my rating should be 4.5 stars, but that is not available. The reason I gave it 4 stars is because it is more or less a bunch of battles that the Last Chancers fight in, with no real purpose other than to show what the 40k universe is like. It all has a purpose at the end, but up until then I was left wondering what the actual story of the book was.