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The final verdict? Good, very good, but not great.

It's story concerns an Imperial warship captain Beckett, who is "murdered" then left for dead by Commander Ward, the second-in-command officer who wants command of the ship for himself. Through an odd turn of events, Beckett press-ganged back onto his own ship as a lowly menial, and has to fight his way back up the ranks.

The plot is surprisingly cohesive, if you buy into it, but doesn't really set up any sort of urgency regarding the mutiny. The corrupt, greedy commander doesn't really have any "evil" qualities, other than being somewhat manipulative, and the real Captain, Beckett, isn't really much of a hero, more of a starch-shirt, by-the-book military type. So there's no real gravity to why it's be bad to have the "fake" Captain Ward in command of the Relentless. If he had some more definite negative character traits (poor quality officer, makes mistakes that get good men killed, his greed overpowers commen sense and and costs lives, secretly carries a Chaos taint and must be removed at all costs...) the book would have had much more of an impact on me.

Dark Eldar appear in the book, but just briefly at its conclusion, but the appearance is very well-done, and very in-character.

Still the book is quite good, it's just that the ending to the book isn't very gratifying either.

Not total trash, the book is worth picking up, especially if you play BFG or like the Imperials/IG, Dark Eldar, or military/naval fiction, but I'd consider it to be a a second-tier purchase.

As always, YMMV.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com