About the Author

Dan Abnett is a seven-times New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning comic book writer. He has written over fifty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn Cycle, volumes of the million-selling Horus Heresy series, The Silent Stars Go By (Doctor Who), Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy, Triumff, and Embedded. In comics, his 2008 run on The Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel formed the inspiration for the blockbuster movies. He is also noted for significant work on DC's Legion of Superheroes and Aquaman. A regular contributor to the UK's long-running 2000AD, he is the creator of series including Brink, Grey Area, Lawless, Kingdom and the classic Sinister Dexter. He has also written extensively for the games industry, including Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation. Dan lives and works in the UK.

Reviews

Abnett takes an ingenious idea and produces a nail-biting tale that has serious things to say about war and the news media. - Eric Brown, The Guardian

Dan Abnett makes war so real you want to duck. - SciFi.com The cinematic scope and dizzying vision we're shown puts most recent SF movie epics into deep shade. - SF Site Abnett delivers the kind of pulsating military sci-fi that we all know he can - Graeme's Fantasy Book Review