Ravenor

About the Ravenor series

The Ravenor trilogy is Dan Abnett's direct follow-up to Eisenhorn, following Gideon Ravenor, once Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn's most promising protege, now an Inquisitor in his own right after an assassination attempt left him bound to a hovering life-support chair and dependent on powerful psychic abilities in place of a working body. Ravenor runs his own retinue of specialists and, in the trilogy's opening novel, is drawn into investigating the criminal empire of Chaos-tainted crime lord Zygmunt Molotch -- a case that keeps circling back to unfinished business from his old mentor's fall from grace in the Eisenhorn books.

Where Eisenhorn is about a single investigator's slow corruption, Ravenor is built more as an ensemble: Ravenor's team of aides and specialists get sustained point-of-view time across Ravenor (2004), Ravenor Returned (2005), and Ravenor Rogue (2007), and the trilogy leans further into undercover work, heist-like set pieces, and the politics of the Inquisition than into Eisenhorn's darker, more introspective fall. It stands as one of Abnett's most acclaimed Warhammer 40,000 works after Gaunt's Ghosts and Eisenhorn itself, and both a satisfying continuation for Eisenhorn readers and a workable entry point on its own.