Black Legion

Black Legion: Warhammer 40,000, Book 2

By: Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Ezekyle Abaddon and his warlords strive to bind the newborn Black Legion together under threat of destruction. Now Khayon, as Abaddon's most-trusted assassin, is tasked with ending the threat of Thagus Daravek, the self-proclaimed Lord of Hosts - a rival to the Ezekyle's final fate.

Fighting the vile whispers of the Dark Gods within his mind, Abaddon turns a fevered gaze back to the Imperium, where his destiny awaits. Yet the Emperor's Champion and his Black Templars stand guard at the gates of Hell, and Sigismund has waited centuries to face Abaddon in battle.

©2017 Games Workshop Limited (P)2017 Games Workshop Limited

Wine tastes even better with time.

You thought the first Black Legion book was good did ya? Well boy do I have a surprise for you, you ain’t seen nothing yet! The second is a even sweeter taste of what the amazing ADB can do and he flexes hard with this one really showing why he is a black library mainstay. Congrats to all involved!

Another great look into the Black Legion

This was a great follow-up book, so much more back story and arc advancement. I love this genre so much.

Amazing!

Perfect sequel to Talon of Horus! I hoe that one day we get a third book in the series!

Exceptional narration

I'm starting to think Abaddon wasn't such a bad guy. Mr. Keeble's range of voice acting keeps every character unique and fresh.

Black told in shades of gray

First let me just say I would love to just shake Aaron Dembski-Bowden's hand for this one.

It has been a long long time since I enjoyed and was enraptured by a story so much. I found myself taking the long way home, or even driving in circles around the block to get through sections, I could not step away.

I have been in warhammer 40k universe since the early 90's. Chaos to me was always brutal, visceral and mindless. No honor all war. The great enemy etc etc. Dembski-Bowden throws a whole bucket of monkey-wrenches at this concept with his depiction of the Black legion and even Abaddon as characters with deep honor and not the pawns of evil gods, but as resistant pawns in their game. The characters have so many layers and depths that the impact on me was striking as I considered the implications of what I was hearing. This story paints the Imperium of Man just as guilty as the 'heretics'.

Just an amazing amazing book and the way Jonathan Keeble read the story(told in the perspection of the protagonist, Khayon, brings this sardonic, calculating and deadly character to life.

I have bought the previous book now and am going through Talon of Horus. (I had not realized I was in book 2, derp) and am very anxious for more on this line.