Ultramarines · Book 4
The Killing Ground
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9781844165629
- Type
- novel

About this book
A four-year gap separates Dead Sky, Black Sun from The Killing Ground, published in 2008 at exactly 320 pages -- matching Nightbringer's length -- as the second trilogy opens with Uriel's return to grace and a war against ork Warlord Snagrod's WAAAGH!.
Its place in Ultramarines
The Killing Ground is book 4 in the Ultramarines series. It follows Dead Sky, Black Sun. It is followed by Courage and Honour. See the full Ultramarines reading order.
Officially titled The Chronicles of Uriel Ventris, this is Graham McNeill's flagship Warhammer 40,000 series and his first major Black Library work, following Uriel Ventris, a captain of the Ultramarines Space Marine chapter, across two decades of publication. It opens with Nightbringer , in which Uriel investigates a cult uprising on the world of Pavonis that turns out to be tangled up with a Necron threat far older and stranger than a simple insurrection, and continues through Warriors of Ultramar and Dead Sky…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781844165629