Inquisitor Ascendant, Book 2: The Hunt For Defay (Warhammer 40,000) (Bk.2) [Paperback]

Dan Abnett (Author), Simon Coleby (Author), Jim Brady (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2002

Years Have passed since Inquisitor Defay fled the investigation of Nicodemus, deserting his apprentice Gravier. Despite the outlawing of his renegade mentor, Gravier has survived and flourished. Now, however, Interrogator Gravier is confronted with the fanatical Inquisitor Reiker, an agent of the Emperor convinced of Defay's treachery and determined to bring him to justice.

In their search across stars and worlds, their uneasy partnership gradually unravels a larger, terrible plot, before finally they realise the goal of their quest and its final, shocking conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This collection of installments of a serial from Warhammer Monthly spins off from the popular British tabletop war game. Fortunately, readers don't have to refer to the game's detailed manuals to understand the comic's dark and violent action. Two hundred centuries from now, a universe-spanning war is being fought between humanity and Chaos. True humans who serve the comatose god-emperor must defeat demons and traitors, who are lurking everywhere, including within the ranks of humans. Inquisitors are empowered to do anything to root out hidden evil. In this mutant, septic extrapolation of Catholic history, the Inquisition is fighting a genuine, unconquerable foe. In the first volume, Inquisitor Defay defeated the Dark Powers on one planet, but then disappeared. Now his apprentice/disciple Gravier accompanies the dreadful Inquisitor Reiker in pursuit of the missing man. The young Gravier defends Defay against Reiker's accusations of heresy, insisting that his master must be following some secret plan to do good, for Defay is a good man. Gravier should know better. It's not easy to find anyone or anything truly good in the Warhammer universe. The book's b&w illustrations fit this gloomy mood. There's little variety in the art's relentless gray tones. Compositions are jammed with heaps of ruined buildings and machines, while human bodies are encased in bulky, fetishistic body armor, and everyone looks equally grim and ugly. Inquisitors evidently are as likely to suffer pain as they are to inflict it. Looking at their scarred, sneering faces, it's difficult to guess which gratifies them more.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Games Workshop (October 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841542385
• ISBN-13: 978-1841542386
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 6.7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,057,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Abnett is a novelsit and award-winnig comic book writer. He has written twenty-five novels for the Black Library, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and with Mike Lee, the Darkblade cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.