The Armour of Contempt

Gaunt's Ghosts: Warhammer 40,000, Book 10

By: Dan Abnett

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

Book 10 in the Gaunt's Ghosts series.

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt returns with the Tanith First to a world that he promised to save, only to find that years of war and the ever-present taint of Chaos may have damaged it beyond redemption.

Listen to it because....

It's a triumphant return to Gereon. Gaunt promised to liberate the planet from the forces of Chaos, and now he's back to keep his word. But as is ever the way for the Tanith, tragedy will be mingled with triumph as the war on Gereon grinds on...

The story:

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt spent a year fighting as part of the underground resistance on the enemy-held world of Gereon. When he left, he promised that he would bring the forces of the Imperium to liberate Gereon's citizens from their oppressors. Now he has returned, a crusade army at his back, but he finds a world devastated by war and a people irrevocably damaged by the taint of Chaos. Now Gaunt must fight to save Gereon not only from the enemy, but from the Imperium itself.

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Fantastic read!

It's a great addition to an already awesome series! There's something in here for every 40K fan: big cataclysmic battles, small intimate fights, and different imperial machinations going with and against each other. Zero complaints with author or reader!

Well made

This was brilliant. It truly shows the meat grinder mentality of the normal Guard Grunts. Meat to be thrown against a metal wall until it breaks. Puts it in perspective really.

Another great one

This whole series never fails to impress the multi book storylines also get better too.

Onto the next great one!

Audible can’t release the next book fast enough. Can’t wait for the next book and adventure!

These really do just get better and better

While Gaunt's Ghosts is the most recommended series of WH40k media, many seem to read the first two or three and call it good. A lot of people are missing out when it comes to these later novels, as Abnett has really hit his stride by this point. The ease at which he writes these characters and the conviction that Toby Longworth voices them with shine through and transform the material from just another episode of a pulp war story to a harrowing, emotional exploration of duty, family, honor and all that good stuff. Possibly my favorite of these so far, next to Sabbat Martyr. And gotta say, love when Longworth gets many different accents to do as compared with something like Eisenhorn where he's doing comparatively fewer voices. It's great to immediately know who's talking because of a familiar lilt and cadence.