Soul Drinkers · Book 3
Crimson Tears
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781844161607
- Type
- novel
About this book
Crimson Tears arrived in 2005, matching The Bleeding Chalice's length exactly at 416 pages as the third installment in Ben Counter's chronicle of the Excommunicate Traitoris Soul Drinkers, hunted by the very Imperium they once served.
Its place in Soul Drinkers
Crimson Tears is book 3 in the Soul Drinkers series. It follows The Bleeding Chalice. It is followed by Chapter War. See the full Soul Drinkers reading order.
Soul Drinkers is Ben Counter's own contribution to Black Library's roster of Space Marine chapters -- unlike many Warhammer 40,000 series built around a chapter already established in Games Workshop's tabletop lore, the Soul Drinkers were created for the novels themselves. The chapter, led by the psychically mutated, multi-limbed Chapter Master Sarpedon, prizes art and culture as proof of the humanity it exists to defend -- an indulgence the wider Imperium regards with deep suspicion. When that suspicion hardens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781844161607