Hive cover art

Hive

Warhammer 40,000

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 Months Free + £10 Audible voucher

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 5 July 2026 at 11:59 BST.
More purchase options

Hive

By: Dan Abnett
Narrated by: Toby Longworth
Get this deal

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends on 5 July 2026 at 11:59 BST. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £23.99

Buy Now for £23.99

A Warhammer 40,000 Audiobook

A double-barrelled set of novels from Dan Abnett, exploring the Adeptus Arbites attempts to enforce Imperial law on a sprawling hive planet amid scandals, cults, and much worse.

LISTEN TO IT BECAUSE

Head down into the depths of a hive world, where a corrupted planetary governor has sent the populace into a perilous spiral they may not recover from. Will the population revolt? Can the Adeptus Arbites save this benighted world?

THE STORY

Welcome to Sacramentus. Austerity and toil will teach the true measure of the Hive's failing. No one is blameless. The planetary governor has fallen, deposed in scandal and treachery. The Adeptus Arbites roam the smog-choked vertics and zontals, rooting out traitors, enforcing the Imperial law without mercy.

As a new governor, an outsider, is crowned, the Hive teeters between order and anarchy. Whispers of rebellion echo from the heights of the Waistland to the depths of the Neg. Rival gangs seize both opportunity and territory, and forbidden cults grow ever bolder. But unbeknownst to all, a more terrifying threat awaits in the darkness.

May your light last, pilgrim. If the Emperor protects, perhaps we shall make it out alive.

Written by Dan Abnett. Narrated by Toby Longworth. Runtime 24 hours and 26 minutes approx.

©2026 Games Workshop Limited (P)2026 Games Workshop Limited Military Science Fiction
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
All stars
Most relevant
Except for the length, the story could be either WH Crime or WH Horror. It's classic Ravenor style detective work and the horrors of uphivers trying to reach excess. The class struggle of ultra-rich living on top of the blue collar middle class and then there's the unmentionables living under the basement, the ones doing the real work supporting everyone else. Initially I figured this was just a side piece trying to please everyone waiting for Pandaemonium, but after just a few hours in, my crescent was hooked to the horns and it was clear that this book stands on its own. The Hive is the main character, but just like soylent green, the hive is made of people.

Easily one of the best 40k books in the last decade. I feel sorry for people who give up on books because they don't understand them straight away. Most perturbatory.

It's gripping, it's disturbing and yes, it's complicated but when you get it, you get it.

One of the best 40k books in a decade

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It has lots of paralel stories that that all try to figure out the plot. It gives different perspectives of the hive and its workings and conditions. Characters are many and memorable. The overall plot twists and turns and keeps you guessing. I loved every minute of it.

Complex and awsome

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Purchased this because Abnett is usually very good. I also like wh40k books.
This book is something if a mystery, something of a story of the hive from the view of the low dwellers.

The tale starts sort of OK, takes a while to present most of the characters and circumstances. Then there are twists, stuff I did not see coming. Well worth a listen.
Be surprised by this story. Best Abnett story ever.
And of course presented by a great narrator for WH40k, Jonathan Keeble. He is always great at telling the stories with multiple voices and accents. Amazon, whatever you are paying him, double it.

best Abnett story ever

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
One of the best 40k books I have listened to, Dan master of warhammer books.

Epic

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
it was vast and sprawling just as you'd hope. I enjoyed the bleak vastness compared with small mindedness.

grim dark

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews