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Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives

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The Drukhari city of Commorragh is without question one of the worst places in the universe – giving even the warp a run for its money – and those who thrive in its dark and treacherous streets are brought up on a diet of murder, intrigue,... Read More
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The Drukhari city of Commorragh is without question one of the worst places in the universe – giving even the warp a run for its money – and those who thrive in its dark and treacherous streets are brought up on a diet of murder, intrigue, and more murder. This urban hellscape is what created Lelith Hesperax – the deadliest gladiator in the galaxy, and the slayer of countless souls on the grim blood sands of the Dark City’s arenas.

In the darkest corners of the webway lies the city of Commorragh. Home to the sadistic drukhari, millions are butchered upon its arenas’ sands to slake their terrible thirst for blood.

Greatest of these butchers is Lelith Hesperax, the Queen of Knives, deadliest gladiator in the galaxy. But she has abandoned the Dark City to walk alongside the nomadic death cultists of the Ynnead, and in her absence rise pretenders to her blood-soaked crown.

When a blade strikes at Lelith from the shadows, she is dragged back to Commorragh and into the murderous games of the Living Muse himself – Asdrubael Vect. As his schemes coil around her, the Queen of Knives finds herself ensnared once more in Vect’s terrible web, and this time her blades may not be enough to free her…

Series: Warhammer 40,000

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804076347

Publisher: Games Workshop Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Games Workshop Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 458g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Mike Brooks is a science fiction and fantasy author who lives in Nottingham. His recent work for Black Library includes the Warhammer 40,000 novels Voidscarred, Lelith Hesperax: Queen of Knives, Da Big Dakka and The Lion: Son of the Forest. He has also written Brutal Kunnin, Harrowmaster, Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom, Warboss, Da Gobbo’s Revenge and the Horus Heresy Primarchs novel Alpharius: Head of the Hydra as well as many others. When not writing, he plays guitar and sings in a punk band, and DJs wherever anyone will tolerate him.

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