Eisenhorn · Book 2
Malleus
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780743411769
- Type
- novel
About this book
Malleus, published the same year and matching Xenos at exactly 288 pages, escalates into daemonic possession and a war within the Inquisition's own ranks.
Its place in Eisenhorn
Malleus is book 2 in the Eisenhorn series. It follows Xenos. It is followed by Hereticus. See the full Eisenhorn reading order.
The Eisenhorn trilogy follows Gregor Eisenhorn, an Imperial Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos charged with rooting out heresy, alien threats, and the corrupting influence of Chaos across the Warhammer 40,000 galaxy. Dan Abnett builds the series as science-fantasy detective fiction rather than straight military SF: Eisenhorn is an investigator first, piecing together conspiracies across decades and star systems with a retinue of specialists, and the trilogy's real tension comes from watching a rigidly orthodox servant…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780743411769