Conquest of Armageddon (Warhammer 40,000 Novels) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jonathan Green (Author)

Book Description

Series: Warhammer 40,000 Novels | Publication Date: December 27, 2005

A rescue mission becomes a battle for survival! The Black Templars Space Marines head to the battle-ravaged planet of Armageddon, determined to find one of their fighting companies that has gone missing there. Unbeknownst to Marshall Brant and his Black Templars, a squad of ork hunters is also at large in the ork-infested jungles, searching for a high-ranking Imperial officer, lost when his plane crashed. What these two would-be rescuers don't know is that there are other things stirring in the jungles. The savage orks of the Blood Scar tribe hunt them through the dense undergrowth, whilst something dark, ancient and terrible prepares to stretch its murderous hand forth once more...Featuring more action with the Black Templars, this is a blistering sequel to "Crusade for Armageddon"!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Truly stunning... highly recommended" RPG United

About the Author

Jonathan Green has been a freelance writer for the last thirteen years. In that time he has written Fighting Fantasy and Sonic the Hedgehog gamebooks for Puffin, and atmospheric colour text for a variety of Games Workshop products. His work for the Black Library, to date, includes a string of short stories for Inferno! magazine and six novels. Jonathan works as a full-time teacher in West London.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Games Workshop (December 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184416196X
• ISBN-13: 978-1844161966
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #779,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jonathan Green lives in West London. He is well known for his contributions to the Fighting Fantasy range of adventure gamebooks, as well as his novels set within Games Workshop's worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, which include the Black Templars duology Crusade for Armageddon and Conquest of Armageddon.

He has written for such diverse properties as Sonic the Hedgehog, Doctor Who, and Star Wars The Clone Wars and has just penned his fifth novel for the popular steampunk Pax Britannia line, published by Abaddon Books, with more to come.

To keep up with what he is doing, go to www.jonathangreenauthor.blogspot.com.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Really Good Read- 4.5 Stars, January 17, 2006

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S. Davis "black library fan" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conquest of Armageddon (Warhammer 40,000 Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

The second book about the Black Templars picks up right where the first one left off. Brant and the battle brothers of the Solumnus Crusade are the most zealous and unforgiving Marines the Black Library has written about, but unlike most books about Space Marines, the Black Templars are all strong, well rounded characters. It is an enjoyable experience to read about the motivations and drives of Space Marines, instead of the stories that present them as nothing but a bunch of paper cutouts that have been given a life, but no personality. For those of you who wonder what makes the Black Templars so unique amongst all the Chapters, you need to enter this book realizing that this Chapter is the least forgiving of the Space Marines. If there ever was a band of battle brothers who would be presented as two-dimensional, it is the Black Templars. The Black Templars do not use librarians, and they even regard their tech-priests with some distrust. Jonathan Green is one of the few writers capable of actually bringing this Chapter to life and actually making it fun to read. He has done a wonderful job in this series so far, but this book does not wrap up as nicely as it should, so I cannot give it a full 5 star rating. Still, it is a fantastic book, and I highly reccomend it to my fellow readers who enjoy a good Space Marine story.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does not live up to the quality of his first book, April 6, 2006

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D. M. Strobel "Dakkar" (Greenwood, Indiana, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conquest of Armageddon (Warhammer 40,000 Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

The development of the characters and the battle of Armageddon were so good in Green's first book. Then in the second book Green brings back several of his old characters and utterly fails to breath the same life and honor into them. If you absolutely must read the book, be aware that as decent as it starts it simply goes downhill every chapter until an utterly pointless ending.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so much of a sequel, more of a rewrite, February 25, 2006

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Imperator (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conquest of Armageddon (Warhammer 40,000 Novels) (Mass Market Paperback)

I tried to like this book I really did. But the more that I read the more I had to keep on checking that I was not reading "Crusade for Armageddon" by mistake. And not to give away the ending I think there are going to be few people who like the way the book ends. Lets hope that Mr Green improves for the next on in the series.