The Warmaster (Gaunt's Ghosts)

Returning to the crusades heart after a dangerous mission Colonel-Commissar Gaunt is thrust into intrigue while his Ghosts face a threat to their very existence. After the success of their desperate mission to Salvations Reach Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First race to the strategically vital forge world of Urdesh besieged by the brutal armies of Anarch Sek. However there may be more at stake than just a planet. The Imperial forces have made an attempt to divide and conquer their enemy but with Warmaster Macaroth himself commanding the Urdesh campaign it is possible that the Archenemy assault has a different purpose - to decapitate the Imperial command structure with a single blow. Has the Warmaster allowed himself to become an unwitting target? And can Gaunts Ghosts possibly defend him against the assembled killers and war machines of Chaos?