Catachan Reading Order

Toby Frost

This novel centres on Colonel 'Iron Hand' Straken, the legendary Catachan war hero, told partly through his recounted exploits in the lethal jungle-warfare tradition of the Catachan Jungle Fighters. Toby Frost blends pulpy action and grim survival as Straken faces alien and human threats across hostile worlds. It is an accessible character-driven Imperial Guard story for fans of the Catachan archetype.

Justin Woolley

On a hostile quagmire world overrun by orks, the veteran Catachan 57th Jungle Fighters go on the offensive while a lone, barely trained survivor of a fallen outpost struggles to prove himself among them. Justin Woolley pairs grim jungle warfare with a coming-of-age trial-by-fire, peppered with extracts from the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer. It is a standalone Astra Militarum novel in Black Library's series line.