Perhaps published out-of-sync, and therefore lessening it’s impact, Knight of Grey is still a worthwhile read. I appreciated him being able to talk briefly to Mortarion and putting a bow on the events of Isstvan. I am gonna be honest, I think the publication timing didn’t work, and it really should have come out prior to Warhawk, as it did remove some of the tension knowing what happened in that story. This novella is snappy, well-paced and has some cracking duels and wraps up one of the Heresy’s longest-running arcs quite nicely.

As he struggles to protect Euphrati Keeler, the first Saint of the Imperial Church, from the horrors of this titanic war, Garro must face his greatest enemy – his father, Mortarion, his former master and the monstrous liege-lord of the traitorous Death Guard – in a final, shattering confrontation. Mortarion despite wanting desperately to destroy Garro when he finally gets this opportunity has to face a much harder foe in his own mind than on the battlefield, which leaves him forever changed. While I have complained in the past about the use of filler material and repetitive themes in the HH / SoT series, I think this book truly serves the classic admonition of "be careful what you ask for, you might get it", as it is terribly bare-bones and short.James Swallow should be honoured, then, that his early-Heresy hero Nathaniel Garro is the one character to be granted his very own novella-length adventure just as the whole conflict is coming to a head. It is clear how much James cares about the character and wants to give him both a grand ending while staying true to Garro's modest and stoic personality, which he achieves magnificently. Das Buch hat von der Schreibweise und Geschichte die Qualität die man von James swallow erwarten kann, sehr sehr gut, fast schon cineastisch. Also for the Horus Heresy, he has written The Flight of the Eisenstein, The Buried Dagger and a series of audio dramas featuring the character Nathaniel Garro, the prose versions of which have now been collected into the anthology Garro. A beautiful end to a wonderful character and one that leaves the door wide open if they choose to bring him back in one way or another.

Nathaniel Garro, the loyalist who betrayed his father Mortarion to warn the Emperor of the horrors of Isstvan, is brought face to face with the hideously changed Primarch. b>

As the epic battle for Terra rages and the future of mankind hangs in the balance, former Knight Errant Nathaniel Garro fights among the ashes and fire of the embattled Imperial Palace as the shadow of Horus Lupercal’s triumph looms. His Marc Dane novels are fast-paced action thrillers featuring a former MI6 field officer turned private security operative; NOMAD is the first in the series, published in the US by Forge. Garro has previously been served really well by audio dramas, and this feels like it had it’s origins in that format- it’s a shame that BL have pivoted away from these. The world-shattering Siege of Terra is drawing to a climax – the penultimate novel Echoes of Eternity gets closer by the day – but there are still a dozen stories to tell about this legendary conflict.As the heresy reaches its final stages, this becomes a momentous event not only for the aforementioned characters but also for Euphrati Keeler. This epic tale will be coming to you in special edition, hardback, eBook, and audiobook formats – and here’s what you can expect.

Although brevity is a virtue rarely seen in the Horus Heresy series, I do feel that actually, this is one of the few stories that could have benefitted from being a little longer. I will just say that all characters are wonderfully portrayed, and our hero, Garro, gets the conclusion on par with great heroic epics. In conclusion, this is a must-read for Garro fans and those delving into the lore of the Imperial faith. I've been following the story of Nathaniel Garro since the early days of the Horus Heresy: fleeing the carnage above Istvaan V on the Eisenstein, his adventures as one of the Knights Errant and the battles he fought in the lead up to the Siege of Terra.He exemplifies everything "correct" about the ideal astartes, and it's hard not to root for him while he marches toward his inevitable fate as he challenges Mortarion to one final duel of blades and ideologies. We follow his final hours alongside Euphrati Keeler, the living saint, another mainstay of the Horus Heresy series. It seems there was a lack of coordination between James Swallow and Chris Wraight when writing their fights with Mortarion. Un buen libro con una historia sólida, con personajes queridos, sin tanto revuelo, grim dark en su máxima expresión, con una historia memorable y el lenguaje crudo pero elegante al que nos han acostumbrado.