Soul Drinkers · Book 2
The Bleeding Chalice
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781844160549
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Bleeding Chalice followed a year later in 2003, continuing the Soul Drinkers' desperate war against both Imperial and Chaos forces as Sarpedon searches for the truth behind his own mutation and the chapter's fractured gene-seed. At 416 pages it's a significant jump from the series opener.
Its place in Soul Drinkers
The Bleeding Chalice is book 2 in the Soul Drinkers series. It follows Soul Drinker. It is followed by Crimson Tears. 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 9781844160549