Black Legion · Book 1

The Talon of Horus

Published
1 January 2014
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9781849705899
Type
novel
Cover of The Talon of Horus

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.

Key facts about The Talon of Horus

The Talon of Horus is a novel by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Readers have had it since 2014. It runs to 352 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of The Talon of Horus. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781849705899 to find the main one.

The Talon of Horus is book 1 of 2 in the Black Legion series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Aaron Dembski-Bowden writes The Horus Heresy and Night Lords as separate series. Those series sit on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, Black Legion is the latest published Aaron Dembski-Bowden book on file, from 2017.

About Aaron Dembski-Bowden

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is a British novelist who came to fiction from the videogame and tabletop-RPG industries before becoming one of Black Library's most acclaimed Warhammer 40,000 writers. See every Aaron Dembski-Bowden book in order.

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…

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