Soul Drinkers · Book 7
Phalanx
- Published
- 2 April 2012
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781849701471
- Type
- novel

About this book
Phalanx closes the series on April 2, 2012, two years after Daenyathos, returning to the 416-page length that marks four of the series' seven entries. It brings Sarpedon's long fight against Imperial suspicion and his chapter's fractured gene-seed to a close, and is collected with Chapter War and Hellforged in the Soul Drinkers: Annihilation omnibus.
Its place in Soul Drinkers
Phalanx is book 7 in the Soul Drinkers series. It follows Daenyathos. 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 9781849701471