Black Tide
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 409
- ISBN-13
- 9781844168057
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 409 pages, Black Tide (2010) is the longest of the four Rafen novels, closing out James Swallow's quartet by bringing Rafen's crisis of faith and the Chapter's Red Thirst and Black Rage to a head after Red Fury's hunt for Fabius Bile.
Key facts about Black Tide
Black Tide is a novel by James Swallow. Readers have had it since 2010. It runs to 409 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Black Tide. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781844168057 to find the main one.
Black Tide is book 4 of 4 in the Blood Angels: Rafen series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with Deus Encarmine (2004).
Additionally, James Swallow writes Sisters of Battle, The Horus Heresy and Marc Dane as separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction and thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward the Night is the latest published James Swallow book on file, from 29 April 2025.
About James Swallow
James Swallow is a London-based British author and scriptwriter, born in 1969, whose career spans novels, comics, video games, radio and television. He is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestseller, a BAFTA nominee, and the only British writer to have worked on a Star Trek television series. See every James Swallow book in order.
Its place in Blood Angels: Rafen
Black Tide is book 4 in the Blood Angels: Rafen series. It follows Red Fury. See the full Blood Angels: Rafen reading order.
James Swallow's Blood Angels quartet follows Rafen, a battle-brother of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter, through a Chapter-defining crisis of faith and blood. Deus Encarmine (2004) opens with Rafen's own brother, Arkio, apparently manifesting miracles that convince the wider Chapter he is the reincarnation of Sanguinius, their revered primarch -- a claim only Rafen, who has watched Arkio change in ways the others haven't noticed, is willing to doubt. Deus Sanguinius (2005) pushes that doubt into open…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781844168057
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781844168040