John French

John French

Stranded and cut off in the wake of catastrophe, Alexis Polux of the Imperial Fists leads a desperate fleet action against overwhelming traitor forces. Outnumbered and isolated, Polux must hold the line and prove the resolve of Rogal Dorn's sons far from Terra.

John French

This short tale turns the spotlight on Horus himself as the rebellion grinds onward, examining the Warmaster's inner state and the burdens of leading a galaxy-spanning insurrection. It offers an intimate look at the corruption and resolve shaping the architect of the Heresy.

John French

The first novel in John French's Ahriman series, following the exiled Thousand Sons sorcerer in the wake of the catastrophic spell that doomed his legion. Wandering the Eye of Terror as an outcast, Ahriman is drawn back toward the pursuit of power and knowledge that has always defined him, in a tale steeped in sorcery and ambition.

John French

The second Ahriman novel, deepening the exiled sorcerer's schemes as he gathers allies and unravels deeper mysteries of fate and the warp. John French continues to explore ambition, regret, and the seductive cost of arcane power among the Thousand Sons.

John French

A short story centered on Sigismund, the Imperial Fists' first captain and greatest champion, as he wrestles with his nature as a warrior born to duel and the burden of an oath that will define him. Set against the legion's grim defensive duties during the Heresy, it explores what it means to be the Emperor's perfect blade. A character study of one of the Heresy's most iconic loyalist swordsmen.

John French

The concluding volume of John French's Ahriman trilogy, following the Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahzek Ahriman as his long-laid schemes to undo the catastrophe that doomed his Legion reach their climax. It draws together the threads of betrayal, rivalry, and forbidden knowledge built up across the earlier books, set in the late 41st Millennium.

John French

Told as a sequence of recovered vox transmissions, this audio drama recreates a tense boarding action as Imperial Fists recon squads infiltrate a massive transport ship to stop it landing during the Battle of Tallarn. The fragmented found-recording format makes for a claustrophobic, escalating mission.

John French

A late-Heresy Imperial Fists and Alpha Legion novel that sharpens the road to Terra through siegecraft, deception, and loyalist preparation.

John French

A Horus Heresy collection built around the massive armored war on the poisoned world of Tallarn, one of the largest tank battles in the setting's history. The stories follow loyalist and Iron Warriors forces grinding through a toxic wasteland in a brutal contest of attrition. It is notable for foregrounding armored warfare and the Iron Warriors Legion rather than pure Space Marine infantry action.

John French

Inquisitor Covenant hunts a hidden conspiracy through the underbelly of the Imperium, drawing together a band of agents bound by suspicion and necessity. As a radical scheme involving forbidden artefacts comes to light, the line between heresy and salvation grows perilously thin in this opening to the Horusian Wars.

John French

A grim tale of the Warmaster's forces enacting a so-called compliance on a world that has already fallen to Horus, exposing the cruelty and corruption that now drive the traitor crusade. Loyalist ideals of bringing planets into the Imperium have curdled into terror and subjugation. The story shows how far the rebel legions have fallen from their original purpose.

John French

The opening chapter of the Agent of the Throne audio series introduces Ianthe, a former Guard soldier now serving Inquisitor Covenant as a covert operative. Tracking a spreading cult, she navigates deception and danger across the underbelly of the Imperium. Part of the wider Horusian Wars storyline.

John French

A late-Heresy traitor-side staging novel that helps explain the unstable coalition approaching Terra and why Horus' war machine is already damaged.

John French

Inquisitor Covenant and his retinue press their dangerous investigation as a Horusian plot to forge a vessel for a fragment of divine power gathers momentum. Rival inquisitors, assassins, and the lure of forbidden knowledge converge, deepening the moral murk of the secret war within the Imperium.

John French

In this award-winning second Agent of the Throne installment, Ianthe and her fellow agents are confined alongside a rogue psyker they have been hunting. To stop him she must confront buried memories from her own past. Continues the inquisitorial operative's arc within the Horusian Wars setting.

John French

The Siege begins at system scale, turning the long Heresy arc toward the final assault on Terra.

John French

This collection gathers shorter tales from the Horusian Wars, following Inquisitor Covenant and his agents through schemes, betrayals, and confrontations across the shadowed corners of the Imperium. The stories expand the wider conflict between radical and puritan factions of the Inquisition surrounding Covenant's hunt.

John French

The third Agent of the Throne entry sends Ianthe and Covenant's retinue on a mission that goes badly wrong on a desolate world. Cornered, she is forced into an uneasy bargain with a mysterious figure and tasked with eliminating a traitor. The story deepens the cost of serving as a secret agent of the Inquisition.

John French

A Siege of Terra installment that turns to the Titan Legions and the apocalyptic god-machine combat raging across the dying world as the Palace is besieged. It deepens the scale of the assault and the toll it takes on Terra's defenders.

John French

A continuation of John French's saga of the Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahriman, picking up his ambitions after the events of the original trilogy as new schemes and old enemies pull him back into galaxy-spanning manipulation. It deepens the portrait of Tzeentch's most infamous servant in the late 41st Millennium and rewards readers already familiar with his story.

John French

A character study of the first Emperor's Champion, tracing Sigismund's path from his earliest days in the Imperial Fists Legion through the trials that forge his unbending faith and martial dedication. The novel charts how the most renowned duellist of the Legiones Astartes is shaped into the living blade who will one day found the Black Templars. It spans formative episodes of his life set against the backdrop of the Great Crusade and the war for Terra.

John French

Told from the unreliable perspective of the Dark Angels' most enigmatic exile, this novel follows Cypher as he and a small band of the Fallen infiltrate Holy Terra itself, pursuing a hidden agenda at the very heart of the Imperium. Custodes, Imperial Assassins, and predictive seers close in as it becomes clear his ultimate destination is the foot of the Golden Throne, leaving his true intentions a tantalizing mystery.

John French

The Thousand Sons sorcerer Ahzek Ahriman finally lays hands on the ancient Necron device he believes can rewrite his Legion's doom and undo the curse of the Rubric. Betrayal at the moment of triumph strands him in a strange limbo beyond ordinary space and time, forcing him to fight through surreal warp-touched landscapes. The fifth Ahriman book caps his long, tragic quest for redemption with arcane confrontation and introspection.

John French

The Warmaster's seemingly-loyal allies turn on the legions sent to bring Horus to heel, and a planetary landing zone becomes the killing ground that defines the Heresy's great betrayal. Told from both sides of the treachery.