The Landing Field Massacre (Paperback)

• A Horus Heresy novel of treachery

• The Warmaster's perfidy is revealed, and the Emperor sends a mighty force to put down the rebellion.

• Can the loyalists survive the trap laid for them here, at the very beginning of the civil war?

• Written by John French

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A Horus Heresy Novel

Horus has revealed his dark designs, but no one is yet prepared for the depths to which he will stoop. The force sent to put down the Warmaster’s rebellion is unaware that it is marching into a massacre the likes of which the galaxy has rarely seen.

WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
It presents the most detailed account yet of one of the Horus Heresy's most horrific battles. You may know what happens at the Drop Site Massacre, but you don't know everything. For the treachery is worse than previously imagined.

THE STORY
Horus has rebelled against the Emperor, purging the legions loyal to him of dissidents, but the horrific deed does not remain a secret for long. In the Emperor's name, Rogal Dorn and Malcador the Sigillite dispatch the greatest force of Space Marines and Primarchs the galaxy has ever seen to deal a death blow to Horus' rebellion before it even begins.

The loyalists seek revenge, but they do not suspect the true depth of the betrayal, and instead of committing a massacre, they will fall victim to it. The last hope of continuing the Great Crusade and restoring the unity of the Imperium dies in the dust of Isstvan V, and the survivors face a new age of darkness.

Written by John French
Translated by Stefan Behrenbruch