The Horus Heresy · Book 4
The Flight of the Eisenstein
- Published
- 1 March 2007
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781844164592
- Type
- novel

About this book
"The Flight of the Eisenstein" is book 4 in the Horus Heresy, a Horus Heresy novel published in 2007, written by James Swallow, and is 416 pages long. 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 Flight of the Eisenstein is book 4 in the The Horus Heresy series. It follows Galaxy in Flames. It is followed by Fulgrim. 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…
Editions
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