Cain's Last Stand

Ciaphas Cain: Warhammer 40,000, Book 6

Book six of the Ciaphas Cain series

The Imperium's most unlikely hero is back, reluctantly returning to the front line and hoping his luck will hold out!

Listen to it because: this entry from the Cain Archives takes the Hero of the Imperium into his greatest - and possibly last - battle. He's an old man in this one, pulled out of retirement for one last mission as the hordes of Chaos close in on the Imperium....

The story: after a long and distinguished career defending the Imperium from its many enemies, Commissar Cain is enjoying a well-deserved retirement on Perlia, teaching in a schola progenium. But when a Black Crusade threatens the sector, all able-bodied citizens must rise to the defence, including Cain and his cadets. As the forces of Chaos overwhelm Perlia, can the wily commissar prove himself to be a real hero of the Imperium one last time?

Written by Sandy Mitchell. Running time 10 hours and 31 minutes. Performed by Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Richard Reed, John Banks and Phillipe Bosher.

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A pleasant romp

Always been a long term fan of this misadventures and, as the series may put it, bowl clenching jaunts of the ever dropping coin. While I tend to favor the stories focused on Caines time with the 597th, this volume cast of characters familiar and new great fun and the performances by the readers solid as ever.

A Guilty Pleasure

Cains last stand is a nice kind of cheesy grime dark adventure that will satisfy any nerds need for grimdark action.

I personally love the naration, the narrators/voice actors do a phenomenal job as always. the music always is so inviting and really brings me into the action. i feel as if I am actuaoly on the battlefield with bolter fore and plasma cannons firing all around me.




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War hammer 40 k fans will love this one as it deals with so much of 40 k from necrons to heratics to the traitor astarties.

I didn't want it to end...

loved, loved, loved every second of this book and highly recommended it for any new or old listeners!

One of the Best Cain Books

this is one of the best of the cain books, the last story arc really doesn't match the shadowlight's saga

Great as always with a minor hiccup

The usual fun formula bot Cain is found here much like the previous books so if you liked the others you'll enjoy this as well. Now that being said there is one aberration in the usual excellent performance around the two hour mark. For a couple chapters the narration takes a nose dive and for a few moments I thought Cain was an entirely different character. Only thing I could imagine was some portion of the recording was lost and they had to do a quick and dirty retake to patch in as afterwards the quality returns to normal.