The Horus Heresy · Book 44

The Crimson King

by Graham McNeill

Published
3 June 2017
Pages
464
ISBN-13
9781784966195
Type
novel

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About this book

Published in 2017, "The Crimson King" holds position 44 in the Horus Heresy, a Horus Heresy novel, written by Graham McNeill, and runs 464 pages. Like the rest of the Horus Heresy, it's military science fiction with operatic stakes -- brothers destroying brothers, and gods whispering behind the history that becomes 40K's backstory.

Its place in The Horus Heresy

The Crimson King is book 44 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows Shattered Legions. It is followed by Tallarn. See the full The Horus Heresy reading order.

The Horus Heresy is Black Library's monumental prequel saga to Warhammer 40,000 — the ten-thousand-year-old origin story every 40K fan knows in outline, finally told in full across 54 official volumes by a rotating team of authors. In the 31st millennium the Emperor of Mankind has nearly completed the Great Crusade, reuniting the human galaxy through his twenty superhuman primarch sons and their Space Marine legions. He names his most brilliant son, Horus, Warmaster — then returns to Terra on a secret project…

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