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Shadowbreaker

Warhammer 40,000

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Shadowbreaker

By: Steve Parker
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
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A Deathwatch novel.

Talon Squad return to action, hunting for a missing inquisitor on a world that has been claimed by the T'au Empire - but has their quarry been taken or defected to the Greater Good?

Listen to it because: It's the long-awaited sequel to Deathwatch and is packed with the high-octane alien-hunting action you've come to expect from Steve Parker.

The story: The Deathwatch are the elite of the elite - small teams of Space Marines handpicked for special missions that require the utmost courage and cunning. Now recovered from the injuries sustained on his previous mission, Codicier Karras must lead Talon Squad in the hunt for a missing inquisitor. Their only clue is the name of an Imperial planet that has been taken over by the T’au. Is the missing inquisitor alive or dead? Worse still, has she gone rogue, jeopardising one of the Inquisition’s most secret projects?

Karras must lead his team against a whole planet of hostile T’au and survive the deadly internal politics of the Inquisition to succeed in his mission, code named Shadowbreaker.

Action, intrigue and excitement are seamlessly woven together by the master of high-octane science fiction, Steve Parker.

Written by Steve Parker. Audiobook running time 16 hours and 37 minutes. Narrated by Andrew Wincott.

©2019 Games Workshop Limited (P)2019 Games Workshop Limited
Adventure Military Space Exploration

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A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

Despite never reading/listening previous books in the series, I was really excited.
The characters were genuinely interesting and almost instantly likable. Especially the members of Talon Squad.
The plot could be divided into two parts: the first one is a “cloak and dagger” type of story with backstabbing, espionage, infiltration, etc. No one is good here: both the T’au and the Imperium use quite questionable methods with little to no regards of human lives.
The second part is a standard “lets kill xenos” story. Good battles and firefights, especially if you like to see the T’au suffer (I do!).
The book has a great value and I will definitely would like to know what will happen next.

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Decent

Rather slow start but picks up around the middle. Voice performance is okay, a bit monotonous and a couple repeated lines though.

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Great story

Great story must listen for any war hammer fans. For the emperor and the astartes

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slow start but hold on to your jump pack!!

awesome and unexpected. Can't wait for another story of team talon deathwatch. story was just a bit slow to start off.

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Great listen

Tiny bit slow in places to start off but overall well worth it. Very grim dark, lots of good deathwatch interactions between some unexpected chapters.
Not the best for new 40k listeners as it does require a lot of lore knowledge to understand fully.
If you know what happened during the Badab War then you should be able to understand everything else (probably).

Much love for our favourite depressed Dreadnought ❤️

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It's the Deathwatch

Great follow-up effort from the first book, loved the story and I am looking forward to the next one.

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Great story in the end, with a few flaws

Warhammer 40K audio books are my guilty pleasure. The performance of these gonzo-epics of unending 'law vs order' military space operas is exquisite.

Steve Parker tells a good story here, and overall hits the mark with lasgun precision.

However, there are passages during the first two-thirds of the novel that feel repetitive and fall into the 'tell, don't show' sin of writing: the author commenting on just how important the mission is or how unlikely it is to succeed. Yes. The reader already knows this from the weirdly-horrific machinations of the Ordos at the start of the book (which is a great opening set of chapters!)

The latter third of the story picks avoids this problematic storytelling, diving into the action with the vivid violence of the final mission and minor characters coming to life (and often dying horribly in short order.)

All up, this audiobook left me very satisfied. No spoilers, but the end is exactly what it should be, but not what exactly what the reader expects.

Enjoy the grim dark future!


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wicked book

absolutely loved it, couldn't want till I got to listen to it again. great length 100% recommend hope they do more from this timeline.

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stick with ADB, French or Wraight.

lots of interesting ideas, but constantly brakes 40k canon. like sentence by sentence. its as if he has the memory of goldfish. go checkout the most recent plague war book instead!

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