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About the Author

Gav Thorpe is the chief game developer of the Warhammer design team. He has also written a batch of stories for the bimonthly anthology Inferno! including the earlier adventures of Kage and the Last Chancers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dude, where's my arm?, Dec 15 2003

By	Ty (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

Bloody carnage? Hopeless battles against impossible odds? Violent psychopaths let loose on the battlefield? Yes, this book has all these things, and manages to weave it all into a pretty fun plot with interesting characters! Our protagonist is Kage, the psychopathic member of the 13th penal legion, a unit led by the mysterious Colonol on an endless succession of suicide missions. Quite the departure from Dan Abnett's more conventional infantry stories, this book is all about the anti-hero.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ready to read the best book in 40k?, Jun 28 2002

By	Jeff Teer (Indianapolis,IN USA) - See all my reviews

At first it was hard to understand mainly because its from a Imperial Guard Penial Leigon. But i then found my self hooked into the book. Battles and Life and Death situations kept me reading and reading. Looking forward to reading Kill Team. This book is a must especailly because of Lorii!! Once you begin reading 'bout her you will never stop reading!

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5.0 out of 5 stars If only there was a sequal..., Jun 16 2002

By	C. Paprocki "grumfrum" (The Overthere) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really wish there was a sequal to this...

Anyway, this is a great book about a Penal Legion called the Last Chancers. While reading this book I was thinking about giving it 4 stars since the battles didn't seem to have a purpose, but at the end it all comes together and makes sense. It is nice reading a book that doesn't have a good law-abiding hero for the main character, and this guy knocks out people's teeth, isn't afraid of killing people, and as I said, is in a Penal Legion.

My favorite character has to be the Tech-priest, though. Gav does a great job describing the member of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and I am going to "borrow" the description for a Tech-Priest in the Inquisitor game.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, except...
This was a really good book, my rating should be 4.5 stars, but that is not available. The reason I gave it 4 stars is because it is more or less a bunch of battles that the Last... Read more

Published on Jun 16 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars The Epitome
In my opinion, this is the best of the Warhammer 40,000 novels produced by the Black Library thus far. Read more

Published on Mar 9 2001 by mrtedsmith

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good book
If you like the Gaunt's Ghosts series of books, this novel is right up your alley. It seems to have the same spirit and breakneck pacing as the Ghosts series w/ a new set of... Read more

Published on Mar 2 2001 by william c cooper