Fresh from Dawn of War, the Black Library's novelisation of the best-selling THQ computer game (voted Real Time Strategy Game of the Year 2004 by Computer and Video Games magazine), the Blood Ravens Space Marines race to defend their homeworld against marauding aliens. It looks as if the enigmatic elders are to blame, but appearances can be deceiving, and a far deadlier foe is revealed. Captain Angelos has to get to the bottom of the mystery before the entire sector is plunged into war.