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Only Rafen, Arkio’s brother, has his doubts, but dare not voice them lest he himself be denounced as a traitor.  \nWhen Chief Librarian Mephiston arrives to investigate Arkio’s claims, the forces of Chaos spring their cunning trap... Forced to the edge of no  \nreturn, can the Blood Angels control their bloodthirsty nature or will this noble Chapter destroy itself in a vicious civil war?  \nJames Swallow has previously written adventures in the dark future of Warhammer 40,000 for Inferno! magazine and What Price Victory. He has also worked on a number of novels, including Judge Dredd: Eclipse, Rogue Trooper: Blood Relative and The Butterfly Effect. His non-fiction includes Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher and guides to genre television and animation, and scripts for videogames and audio dramas.  \nBlood Angels: Deus Sanguinius can be purchased in all better bookstores, Games Workshop and other hobby stores, or direct from this website and GW mail order.  \nPrice £5.99 (UK) / $6.99 (US)  \nBookshops: Distributed in the UK by Hodder. Distributed in the US by Simon &  \nSchuster Books.  \nGames & hobby stores: Distributed in UK and US by Games Workshop. UK mail order: 0115-91 40 000  \nUS mail order: 1-800-394-GAME  \nOnline: Buy direct care of Games Workshop’s web store by going [to](to www.blacklibrary.com/store or www.games-workshop.com)[ www.blacklibrary.com/store](to www.blacklibrary.com/store or www.games-workshop.com)[ or](to www.blacklibrary.com/store or www.games-workshop.com)[ www.games-workshop.com](to www.blacklibrary.com/store or www.games-workshop.com)[ ](to www.blacklibrary.com/store or www.games-workshop.com)PUBLISHED BY THE BLACK LIBRARY  \nGames Workshop, Willow Road, Nottingham, NG7 2WS, UK Copyright © 2005 Games Workshop Ltd. All rights reserved.  \nReproduction prohibited, in any form, including on the internet. ISBN: 1 84416 155 2  \nTM  \n®  \nThis is an excerpt from Deus Sanguinius by James Swallow.  \nPublished by Black Library Publishing, 2005.  \nCopyright © Games Workshop Ltd 2005. All rights reserved. Reproduction prohibited, in any form, including on the internet. For more details email [publishing@games-workshop.com](publishing@games-workshop.com) or goto the [Black Library website www.blacklibrary.com](Black Library website www.blacklibrary.com)  \nfrom BLOOD ANGELS: DEUS SANGUINIUS  \nIn the midst of all the madness, the warrior found himself a small corner of darkness where he could shut himself off, a tinysanctuary of silence. It was his shelter, after a fashion, a bolthole in which he could shutter away the churn of doubtsand fearsand concentrate instead on finding answers to the questions that plagued him. The room had once been a basement store for volatilesand dangerous chemicals, and it still carried the tang of free hydrocarbons in the thick air, the very stink of them embedded into the dull iron walls.  \nHe peered out of the doorway to ensure that he was not being followed, and then shouldered shut the heavy hatch. It met the frame with a low booming, and he closed the latches. The biolume in the ceiling was cracked and dull, a thin trickle of greenish glow-fluid staining the cage around it. The chamber’s only real light source was the grille near the top of the wall, which peered out at ground level to the streets beyond. Now and then, the faint snap-crack of a lasgun discharge passed through the vent, and the wave-like rush of a distant cheering crowd.  \nHe removed the heavy hessian sack from the cord across his shoulder and dropped the bag to the floor. The delicacy he displayed seemed at odds with the huge, muscled figure he presented. 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