This book by James Swallow is the fourth Horus Heresy novel. Rather than following straight on from the third book, this one skips backwards a few years to trace the journey of Mortarion's Death Guard legion, viewed through the personage of captain Nathaniel Garro. We follow this legion through a handful of military struggles and victories, before catching up with the broader narrative at Isstvan III - where, while everything is kicking off down on the planet's surface, Saul Tarvitz of the Emperor's Children manages to send a warning to Garro (who is waiting in space) that a betrayal of epic proportions is about to take place. Shortly thereafter a small gaggle of civilian refugees from Horus's own ship (where all the remembrancers who had been assigned to them had been slaughtered once the heretical new direction of the Luna Wolves - now renamed the Sons of Horus - had been decided upon) manage to reach Garro on the Eisenstein, and inform him of the developments that are taking place. Determined to inform the Emperor of the treacheries taking place, Garro commands the Eisenstein to flee into the warp and make headway as fast as possible for Terra (i.e. Earth). They have a close shave breaking away from the rest of the fleet orbiting Isstvan III, but they eventually make it - and at the novel's closing Garro has succeeded in passing his news on to Rogal Dorn, primarch of the Imperial Fists legion who are stationed at Terra, who is quite understandably shocked and outraged at the report.
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