Soul Drinkers · Book 7

Phalanx

by Ben Counter

Published
2 April 2012
Pages
416
ISBN-13
9781849701471
Type
novel

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Cover of Phalanx

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…

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