I've just finished reading Salvation's Reach again. I am more and more convinced that it is not the work of Dan Abnett. Don't get me wrong, it is a very good book. It is in his style and it fooled me for the first two read-throughs I did. I have my doubts about Blood Pact too although I may be reaching a bit there. But some of the stuff in Salvation's Reach is just not his words. The thing that got me thinking was this sudden, upbiqitous, unexplained use of the word 'lasman'. I mean great, it is obviously drawn from the British Army 'rifleman' and if he'd have used in throughout the Gaunt books or introduced it somewhere and briefly explained in the story why everyone is now using the phrase then I would have bought that. But nothing. 13 books - no mention and then book 14 about 5-6 characters use it as if it is a natural phrase.
There, that's my starter for 10 - what does everyone else think?
Grah
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