About the Author

Ben Counter is one of Black Library’s most popular Warhammer 40,000 authors. He has two Horus Heresy novels to his name – Galaxy in Flames and Battle for the Abyss – and is also the author of the Soul Drinkers series. For Space Marine Battles, he has written the novels The World Engine and Malodrax, along with novellas in the collections Architect of Fate, Sanctus Reach and Damocles. He is a fanatical painter of miniatures, a pursuit which has won him his most prized possession: a prestigious Golden Demon award. He lives in Portsmouth, England.

Steve Lyons’ work in the Warhammer 40,000 universe includes the novellas Engines of War and Angron's Monolith, the Imperial Guard novels Ice World and Dead Men Walking – now collected in the omnibus Honour Imperialis – and the audio dramas Waiting Death and The Madness Within. He has also written numerous short stories, and is currently working on more tales from the grim darkness of the far future.

Rob Sanders is the author of The Serpent Beneath, a novella that appeared in the New York Times bestselling Horus Heresy anthology The Primarchs. His other Black Library credits include two novels in The Beast Arises series – Predator, Prey and Shadow of Ullanor – along with the Warhammer 40,000 novels Adeptus Mechanicus, Legion of the Damned and Atlas Infernal. He has also written the Warhammer fantasy Archaon duology, Everchosen and Lord of Chaos. He lives in the city of Lincoln, UK.

C L Werner has written a host of novels and stories set in the Warhammer world, including the End Times novel Deathblade, the Witch Hunter and Brunner the Bounty Hunter trilogies, the Thanquol & Boneripper series, and The Black Plague trilogy. He has also written a number of stories set in Warhammer’s new Age of Sigmar setting. His Warhammer 40,000 credits include the Space Marine Battles novel The Siege of Castellax and the audio drama Iron Devil. He lives and works in the American south-west.