Black Legion · Book 1
The Talon of Horus
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781849705899
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Talon of Horus opens the Black Legion series, published in 2014 by Aaron Dembski-Bowden and running 352 pages, narrated by former Thousand Sons sorcerer Iskandar Khayon as he and a small confederation of legionaries hunt through the Eye of Terror for Abaddon himself, hoping to convince him to pick up what Horus started.
Its place in Black Legion
The Talon of Horus is book 1 in the Black Legion series. It is followed by Black Legion. See the full Black Legion reading order.
Black Legion is Aaron Dembski-Bowden's account of the Traitor Legions' lowest, most fractured point -- the decades after the Horus Heresy's defeat, when the Sons of Horus have scattered and the wider Chaos-aligned galaxy has all but forgotten Abaddon, the former First Captain who will eventually reforge them into the Black Legion. It's narrated by Iskandar Khayon, a former Thousand Sons sorcerer, recounting the story under Imperial Inquisition custody -- a framing device that lets Dembski-Bowden write almost…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781849705899
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781784960490