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The Last Ditch

Ciaphas Cain: Warhammer 40,000, Book 8

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The Last Ditch

By: Sandy Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Toby Longworth, Andrew James Spooner
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About this listen

Book 8 of the Ciaphas Cain series.

The Imperium's least willing hero is thrown back into the fight against another alien threat as Commissar Cain returns to a frozen planet to battle an incursion by monstrous orks.

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It's a rip-roaring action adventure tale with a few daring twists and a whole load of that typical Ciaphas Cain humour. The opening sequence—involving a dramatic star ship crash—is particularly exciting.

The story:

Imperial commissar Ciaphas Cain returns to Nusquam Fundumentibus to crush the ork attacks which have been plaguing the frozen planet. But when his ship crashes into the wastelands outside the capital, it disturbs a far greater enemy, one which has lain dormant under the permafrost since long before the Imperium came to this world and could now threaten the whole sector. Faced with ongoing greenskin raids and keeping an over-enthusiastic novice commissar under control, Cain must rally his men and confront whatever emerges from beneath the rapidly melting ice....

Written by Sandy Mitchell. Narrated by Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Toby Longworth, Andrew James Spooner. Run time 9 hours and 30 minutes.

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great, though some lines do repeat without realisation or it being one of Cain's catchphrases

Classic Cain

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Good story and the performance as usual is top draw. The story just lacks something that the others have

Good, but not the best of Ciaphas

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One of the better Cian books. The series is at its best when it's him and Jürgen hanging. Ending seemed rushed though, would have loved to have seen his crew react to how it ended

One of the best

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this deep in the series, why bother reading reviews, you already know if you like the writing style

just get it already

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Listen we all love Cain, this is more of the same great book would recommend.

Great

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