This book, and the one that came before it, are good books. I think that someone without a real understanding of Warhammer 40k would still find them enjoyable stories. And someone with a real love of the 40k universe would love it.
The books are about the retinue of an Inquisitor. The books are supposed to a means of promoting the 40k RPG Dark Heresy. It does an excellent job of showing the various members of the retinue performing their duties. The two books are basically about one really long investigation into a situation that the Inquisition is trying to get to the bottom of. It makes for an excellent story as well as an inspiration if someone wanted to use it to weave their own story for a game. However, you definately don't need the RPG to enjoy the books.
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My one real beef with the book is that this book ends without completing the entire story. I'm not sure if this is intended to leave it open to the reader, if it is intended to be used as a starting point for a game master to run their own campaign, or if there was originally supposed to be a third book to make a trilogy and for whatever reason it never happened. This book wraps up the specific plot of this story, but the overall plot is left open. And since this book is based on the RPG, I thought it would've been kind of cool to perhaps see the character sheets of the heroes and villains (not a usual thing for a book, but would've been interesting in this particular case)
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