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The Silent War: Chosen of the Sigillite Hardcover

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Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1784963682
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1784963682
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.13 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 15.24 x 4.57 cm

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James Swallow
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James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for video games, radio and television.
His Marc Dane novels are fast-paced action thrillers featuring a former MI6 field officer turned private security operative; NOMAD, the first in the series, is published in the US by Forge. Book two - EXILE - will be on sale in May 2019.
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John French is an award winning script writer, novelist, and games designer. He has written twelve novels over a decade long career, notably the Ahriman series and Horusian Wars trilogies set in the dystopian far future of Warhammer 40,000, and five novels in the New York Times Bestselling The Horus Heresy series, most recently with The Solar War. His other work includes cosmic horror in the Lord of Nightmares Trilogy from Fantasy Flight Publishing, and detective fiction in The Last Visitor in Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes from Titan Books (writing as Stephen Henry). In 2018 he won a Scribe Award for Best Audio with the audio drama Agent of the Throne: Blood and Lies.
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Tyler H

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 15, 2019

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JPS

Mustering forces for the final round

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 20, 2016

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This is a good collection of some fourteen short (and not so short!) stories around the theme of organising the defence of Terra and the mustering of all possible forces to this effect. A number of interesting features stand out.

One is the appearance of Malcador the Sigillite, the Emperor’s (human) right hand and his key role in organising this defence alongside Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists, who focuses on the system’s and Palace’s fortifications.

Another feature is the several glimpses of the Palace’s transformation into a formidable, somewhat ugly but not impregnable fortress, despite all efforts.

A third interesting streak is the methods used by the Sigillite in his war effort to counter subversion and muster all available resources. A number of the short stories are in fact continuations of previous volumes, for instance the Outcast Dead continued by Wolf Hunt, where the Luna Wolf Severian gets hunted down by Nagasana, the human assassin, throughout the imperial palace complex.

This allows the various authors to bring about a fourth feature with a number of characters present in previous Horus Heresy volumes reappearing. This is the case of the old warrior Iacton Qruze, veteran of the Unification Wars, and of Loken, both formerly of the Luna Wolves, prominent in the first three volumes of the Horus Heresy, and now serving the Sigillite as his envoys and/or spies.

Some of the stories also show how Malcador desperately seeks to recruit far and wide just about anyone with special talents. This includes psykers and despite the Emperor’s former interdiction and their former belonging to Legions that have betrayed, such a Fel Zharost of the Night Lords who remembers his rather atrocious childhood (Child of Night). It also includes approaching the Night Lords themselves and their highly erratic (not to say murderously mad) Primarch Konrad Curze with envoys made up of a squad of Wolves from Fenris (the Watcher).

Also re-appearing in a couple of stories is Garro of the Death Guard, who also refused to follow his Primarch and turn against his brothers at Isstvan V and was the main character of “The Flight of the Eisenstein”. He has now one of the Sigillite’s “Knight Errant” fighting daemons from Chaos and a precursor of the Grey Knights.

Another nice touch is the presence of some stories focusing on the impact that the horrific civil war across the galaxy has on individual super-human Legionaries. One is about Loken who readers will discover suffering from some kind of PTSD in Luna Mendax. Another is the very short (4 pages) Army of One and the retribution that is brought years after to a Planet Governor who has sided with Horus.
All in all, there were no weak stories even if I might have appreciated some more than others. I did have one issue however and this is that six of the stories published in this collection have already been issued either as novella (such as “the Purge”) or as audio drama (Grey Angel, the Sigillite, Wold Hunt, Templar, the Watcher). Accordingly, only eight of the stories are really original. Four stars.

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Sol

Not a bad little collection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 9, 2018

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A decent collection of stories. The Sigillite is probably my favourite, I enjoyed his wish to preserve artefacts from Terran history and the insight into other struggles occurring as the Heresy rages. In other tales we see the return of heroes form earlier novels, one in particular was a hmmm moment for me and not to my taste. The other stories range for good to okish.
Not a bad little collection, a few fillers, entertaining enough overall

E.J.S

The war in the shadows

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 15, 2019

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Great little book. It contains 13 short stories all of which I enjoyed. The Purge and Child of Night were the stand out stories for me. Well worth reading

Andrew N. Swan

Overall a good collection of stories

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2017

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Overall a good collection of stories. All but one were interesting and enjoyable. Well worth picking up if you enjoy the Horus Heresy stories. Great to see what happened to some of the loyal Death Guard.

Tracy bates

Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 1, 2020

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Very good

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