• Dead in the Water

  • Ciaphas Cain: Warhammer 40,000
  • By: Sandy Mitchell
  • Narrated by: Toby Longworth
  • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (485 ratings)

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Dead in the Water

By: Sandy Mitchell
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
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Commissar Ciaphas Cain is a renowned and revered hero of the Imperium, a man who has faced and survived some of the vilest creatures the universe can throw at him. But when he is sent to a river-world, he must deal with a dangerous enemy, an enemy whose true identity remains unknown. As his vessel traverses the straits of the planet, Cain must uncover the face of this new foe so that he can understand and escape it. Caught in the enemy crossfire, the commissar has no place to run and his nerve will be tested to the very limits.

©2011 Games Workshop Limited (P)2012 Games Workshop Limited

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Bring out the rest of the stories ASAP!

My favorite Commisar. The narrator(s) really bring the stories to life. I can't wait for the rest of the series to come out.

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Warhammer's most Heroic Coward!

I had stared at the Cain audiodramas for a few years before finally buying one. I love the Warhammer setting and I have to say I loved this story. Cain is a lazy self serving coward, but he's smart enough to know that sometimes it's in one's self interest to do what has to be done. It's just that he'll try every other option first. In a way it reminds me of Churchill's quote about America. And even though he tries everything to avoid it, when the chips are down, he is the hero people think he is. This tale starts with a bit of a mystery- some missing soldiers. And Cain reluctantly leading the search for them. His self serving style often catches people off guard, since they expect the more selfless hero. But he gets the job done. I loved the story so much I purchased his other audiodrama and his first three novels on Kindle and have already started on the third.

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Wasted a credit on this "book".

Don't make the same mistake I did. This is one chapter and only an hour long. I thought it was the next book in the series, not a short primer.

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Disappointing and Expensive.

-3 different Voices for the Cain, confusing and weird.
-Missing the humor that made the Cain books unique
-Boring story, no plottwists, no thrill.

+Jürgen.

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Not bad

This was a nicely written short story. What I didn't appreciate were the added sound effects in the background. Some of them were okay and fit the narrative, but most were obnoxious.

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Ciaphas Cain at his best!

I love these audio dramas! I wish there were more!! the plot is good, the characters are classic 40k, it's great!

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Awesome!

All of Sandy Mitchell’s books are superb - very much capture the essence of Ciaphas Cain - and this one is equally awesome, both in writing and performance.

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Too short

The voice acting was fine. The hyper masculinity of a WH40K novel embodied, although an odd choice of the narrator to provide a different voice for the "memoir" version of themselves.

However, the story was far too short to be worth the asking price. Barely an hour long, it felt like two episodes of a particularly well done podcast. Were the series to continue in 30 minutes episodes every month, I would happily subscribe at $3-$5pcm, but this really feels like a wasted Audible credit.

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everyone sounds wrong

none has the same voice as in the actual audio books...
also the effects are slightly too loud to make the dialogue easily distinguishable

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1/4 of a story

Don’t bother. There is no resolution or battle or really a story even told here

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