This book, the fifteenth Gaunt's Ghosts novel by Dan Abnett, is about as heart-stopping and thrilling a conclusion to a series as I can remember ever reading. While the Big Twists were dampened slightly by my own guessing them a-book-and-a-half prior and halfway through respectively,* the combination of slow-burn plot and punchy characterful action is masterfully written as is the gritgore horror of the Big Bad Guys - and [PARTIAL MAYBE SPOILER ALERT] I'm glad to say my favourite scout-sergeant got probably the single coolest fething showdown** I've seen on the plasma-screen cinema that is my imagination. Hats off. And while it would feel like a natural end to the series, who knows?
* Not to say most readers would. I'm just overly paranoid about what Dan tends to do with his characters, and to be honest I've probably got a bit of warp-taint in me, which helps on this particular front of expecting the brutally ridiculous.
** If not coolest moments outright, but that's just daily porridge for Oan.
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