GWS-BL3292 Games Workshop Black Library Warhammer 40,000 Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom

About This Book

For a long time Huron Blackheart had the easiest job in the galaxy. The Imperium was weak, the Maelstrom was his, and the Red Corsairs took what they wanted from a realm too stretched to answer. Being the Blood Reaver was mostly a matter of turning up.

Guilliman changed that. A primarch walking the Imperium again means fleets that fight back and a galaxy no longer arranged for Huron's convenience, and the reversal has been noticed by exactly the wrong people. The Red Corsairs are renegades by definition: they follow strength, they have renounced every other loyalty, and the moment their master looks less than certain the knives come out from inside.

So Huron spends this novel doing what he has always been better at than fighting, which is manipulating everyone around him. There are bargains available. Some of them are traps, and the ones that are not still cost more than he wants to pay.

Who It's For

Chaos Space Marine collectors, particularly anyone with a Red Corsairs or renegade warband, since Huron is the figure the whole faction is arranged around and he has rarely been the point of view.

It also suits readers who like villains under pressure. This is not a conquest story; it is a study of a warlord defending a position from subordinates who admire him precisely because he taught them to take what they can hold.

At 208 pages it is a short book, and a good one to try if the doorstop omnibuses have put you off.

Reference Numbers

BL3292