Straight Silver (Gaunt's Ghosts: Warhammer) [Mass Market Paperback]

Dan Abnett (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2002

On the battlefields of Aexe Cardinal, the struggling forces of the Imperial Guard are locked in a deadly stalemate with the dark armies of Chaos. Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his regiment, the Tantih First - and - Only are thrown headlong into this living hell of trench warfare, where death from lethal artillery is always just a moment away. The only chance for Gaunt and his lightly armed scouts to survive is to volunteer for a mission so dangerous that no one else dares accept it.

--This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A gripping. all guns blazing story of heroics and violence - Enigma Rattles along at a breakneck rate - SFX magazine --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

About the Author

Dan Abnett lives and works in Maidstone, Kent, in England. Well known for his comic work, he has written everything from the Mr Men to the X-Men in the last decade, and received particular acclaim for his five year run on The Legion for DC Comics. He is currently writing Majestic for Wildstorm, and Sinister Dexter and The VCs for 2000 AD. His work for the Black Library includes the popular strips Lone Wolves, Titan and Darkblade, the best-selling Gaunt's Ghosts novels, and the acclaimed Inquisitor Eisenhorn trilogy. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Games Workshop (December 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074344325X
• ISBN-13: 978-0743443258
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,283,389 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.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Straight Fething Silver!, May 12, 2003

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T. Harris (Chillicothe, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Straight Silver (Gaunt's Ghosts: Warhammer) (Mass Market Paperback)

Straight Silver is my favorite book out of the Gaunt's Ghost's series. The book starts off with the Ghost's arriving at a world which as be engulfed in a 40 year tench war, wow. Straight Silver, like all the other Gaunt's ghosts books has wonderful detailed battle scenes, but that is not the reason why this is my favorite. I felt this book had wonderful character development and emotion. Unlike the other books in the series, Straight Silver was the only one almost to bring me to tears. Rawne, Larkin, Caffran, Criid, Soric, Gaunt, and all the ghost seemed to get a upgrade in this book. The writing and descriptions of the characters and the settings were Abnett at his best.

Some fans of the Gaunt's Ghosts don't really like this book, other like myself,absolutey love this book. So give it a try, but read all the other first.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Abnett's best, August 8, 2005

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Leo Champion (Boston, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Straight Silver (Gaunt's Ghosts) (Mass Market Paperback)

As other reviewers have said, Straight Silver seems more like a continuation and a set-up, than a full and worthy instalment in the Gaunt's Ghosts series.

Which isn't to say that it's a bad book - not the case at all. The Ghosts are sent to a world of trench warfare, to reinforce the burned-out Imperial forces there; but Chaos has also sent reinforcements, and they're preparing for a breakthrough... which is pretty much the sum of the plot.

There IS some good setup, and Abnett again proves that he can write first-rate combat... but we KNEW he could, and the context of this combat isn't much better. Several of the character subplots continue, there's character development... et cetera.

If you're a reader of the series, you'll want this sixth book - if only because it DOES set a few things up for the vastly superior seventh. If you're not, this is probably the worst place you could possibly start. Worth the purchase price, but Abnett could have done much better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good warhammer 40k book., June 10, 2004

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oinker boinker "anti sellout" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Straight Silver (Gaunt's Ghosts) (Mass Market Paperback)

I first read this because Im a fan of warhammer. I played chaos so i was looking for a chaos book. my choices were limited so this was the closest I could get. I thought t was going to be a bore at the beginning. But once the fighting started i couldnt put it down. This was my first warhammer book wich is to bad because Dan Abnitt probably writes the limit of enjoyment warhammer 40k books can go. so I was looking forword to the other four I bought but they just couldnt add up. But if you play warhammer 40k then you will probably like this book.