About the Author

Ben Counter is one of Black Library’s most popular Warhammer 40,000 authors. He has two Horus Heresy novels to his name – Galaxy in Flames and Battle for the Abyss  – and is also the author of the Soul Drinkers series. For Space Marine Battles, he has written the novels The World Engine and Malodrax, along with novellas in the collections Architect of Fate, Sanctus Reach and Damocles. He is a fanatical painter of miniatures, a pursuit which has won him his most prized possession: a prestigious Golden Demon award. He lives in Portsmouth, England.