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David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Michelle Ryan are the narrators of this exclusive collection of original audio adventures. Join the 10th Doctor on journeys in time and space in these stories: 'Pest Control', 'The Forever Trap', 'The Nemonite Invasion', 'The Rising Night', 'The Day of the Troll', 'The Last Voyage' and 'Dead Air'. Written by Peter Anghelides, Dan Abnett, David Roden, Scott Handcock, Simon Messingham and James Goss.

Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn hat sein gesamtes Leben damit verbracht, Ketzer und die Diener des Chaos zu bekämpfen. Doch wie lange kann jemand diesem Pfad folgen, bis er selbst den Verlockungen der Verderbten Mächte erliegt? Ist Eisenhorn noch ein Verteidiger des Imperiums oder wurde er bereits von dem Bösen verführt, das er jagt? Dieses Buch enthält die gesammelten Fälle des Gregor Eisenhorn.

It is the 31st millennium. Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor, the Imperium of Man hasstretched out across the galaxy. It is a golden age of discovery and conquest. But now, on the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves the front lines, entrusting the great crusade to his favourite son, Horus. Promoted to Warmaster, can the idealistic Horus carry out the Emperor's grand plan, or will this promotion sow the seeds of heresy amongst his brothers?

Hydra has a synthetic pathogen that will make the entire human race dependent on them for the cure. A.I.M.'s newly developed nanotech compound to enslave humanity is dangerously close to contaminating the world's water supplies. Ultron is poised on the edge of Singularity, Earth's technology at his metallic fingertips. Dormammu has a plan to save the world - by claiming it as his own. The High Evolutionary is rewriting the human genome in a bid to turn humankind into a eugenic slave-race. Everybody wants to rule the world - and only the isolated Avengers can stop them.

On the world of Verghast, a grinding war between two hive cities - one loyal to the Imperium, the other fallen to the worship of the Dark Gods - is bolstered by the forces of the Astra Militarum, spearheaded by the Colonel-Commissar Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only. But bitter rivalries and treachery threaten to derail the defence of Vervunhive, and it falls to Gaunt to take command of the Imperial forces and forge victory from an almost certain defeat.   

The Traitor Host of Horus Lupercal tightens its iron grip on the Palace of Terra, and one by one the walls and bastions begin to crumple and collapse. Rogal Dorn, Praetorian of Terra, redoubles his efforts to keep the relentless enemy at bay, but his forces are vastly outnumbered and hopelessly outgunned. Dorn simply cannot defend everything. Any chance of survival now requires sacrifice, but what battles dare he lose so that others can be won? Is there one tactical stroke, one crucial combat, that could turn the tide forever and win the war outright? 

The Inquisition moves amongst mankind like an avenging shadow, striking down the enemies of humanity with uncompromising ruthlessness. When he finally corners an old foe, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn is drawn into a sinister conspiracy. As events unfold and he gathers allies - and enemies - Eisenhorn faces a vast interstellar cabal and the dark power of daemons, all racing to recover an arcane text of abominable power: an ancient tome known as the Necroteuch.

For the first time, get seven classic audio dramas from the Horus Heresy in one fantastic collection - including a brand-new audio drama edition of Dan Abnett's short story 'Little Horus'. If you don't know where to start with Horus Heresy audio, this curated collection is the perfect beginning - and if you just want to reexperience these exciting adventures, this is your chance! 

The Ghosts of the Tanith First-and-Only have been away from the front line for too long. Listless and hungry for action, they are offered a mission that perfectly suits their talents. The objective: the mysterious Salvation's Reach, a remote and impenetrable stronghold concealing secrets that could change the course of the Sabbat Worlds campaign.

Best-selling author Dan Abnett turns his hand to the mighty Space Marines! The war-torn far future is laid bare as Brothers of the Snake follows the exploits of the Iron Snakes Space Marines as they battle against the enemies of mankind. First appearing in the pages of Inferno! magazine, the Iron Snakes Space Marines quickly gathered a loyal following, and now they wage war in a full-blown adventure, battling aliens and heretics as they defend the Imperium. 

Sons of the primarch Roboute Guilliman, the Primaris Ultramarines are peerless warriors whose sworn duty is to protect mankind from the predations of the xenos and the foul traitors of the Heretic Astartes. In a galaxy riven by eternal war, they and the other armies of the Imperium are all that stand between mankind and damnation. Their ship damaged by warp storms, the Ultramarines of strike force Cassian make for Kalides Prime. Also within this book is a host of awesome short stories to give you a flavour of the many warring armies that exist within the worlds of Warhammer 40,000.  

A Great War is coming, and it will engulf the Imperium of Man. The Space Marines of the Alpha Legion, the last and most secretive of all the Astartes brotherhoods, arrive on a heathen world to support the Imperial Army in a pacification campaign against strange and uncanny forces. But what drives the Alpha Legion?

A century after his recovery of the alien Necroteuch, Gregor Eisenhorn is one of the Imperial Inquisition's most celebrated agents. But when a face from his past returns to haunt him, and he is implicated in a great tragedy that devastates the world of Thracian Primaris, Eisenhorn's universe crumbles around him. The daemon Cherubael is back, and seeks to bring the inquisitor to ruin - either by his death, or by turning him to the service of the Dark Gods.    

Hunted by his former allies as a radical and enemy of the Imperium, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn must fight to prove that he remains loyal as he tracks down a dangerous heretic whom the Inquisition believes dead, the dread former Inquisitor Quixos. As he grows more desperate for victory, Eisenhorn uses ever darker means to achieve his goals, but how far can he go using the weapons of the enemy until he becomes that very enemy, and no different to the traitor he hunts?

On Monthax, Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his Tanith First-and-Only await the order to advance into the sweltering jungle and drive the alien eldar from the world. As battle approaches, Gaunt walks the lines, raising his men's spirits and remembering their most heroic deeds - and the tragedies that have dogged Gaunt's Ghosts from the day of their founding on lost Tanith. The day that Gaunt became known as the Ghostmaker. 

Auf der Welt Verghast herrscht ein zermürbender Krieg zwischen zwei Makropolen. Eine steht loyal zum Imperium, während die andere den Dunklen Göttern verfallen ist. Kommissar-Oberst Gaunt und das Erste und Einzige Tanith werden als Speerspitze einer Entsatzstreitmacht in den Kampf geschickt, doch erbitterte Konkurrenzkämpfe und Verrat drohen, die Verteidigung der Vervun-Makropole scheitern zu lassen. Gaunt ist gezwungen, das Kommando zu übernehmen und zu versuchen, die drohende Niederlage in einen Sieg zu verwandeln.

Auf Monthax warten Kommissar-Oberst Ibram Gaunt und das Erste und Einzige Tanith den Befehl zum Vorrücken in einen drückend heißen Dschungel, um die fremdartigen Eldar von dem Planeten zu vertreiben. Als der Zeitpunkt der Schlacht immer näher rückt, marschiert Gaunt die Reihen entlang, stärkt den Kampfgeist der Männer und erinnert sich ihrer größten Heldentaten - und der Tragödien, welche die Geister seit ihrer Gründung auf dem zerstörten Tanith heimsuchen. Der Tag, an dem Gaunt als Geistermacher bekannt wurde.

Als der Kriegsherr Horus sich gegen den Imperator auflehnte, zerstörte der darauf folgende Bürgerkrieg beinahe das Imperium. Space Marines kämpften gegen ihre eigenen Brüder in einer Auseinandersetzung, aus der nur der Tod als Sieger hervorging. Doch die Legionen rangen schon lange vor diesem Zeitpunkt mit ihrer eigenen Identität und den Anforderungen des Großen Kreuzzugs, mit dem der Imperator die Galaxis für die Menschheit erobern wollte.

Seit eintausend Jahren werden die Sabbatwelten von den Mächten des Chaos beherrscht und sind für das Imperium verloren. Jetzt wird eine gewaltige Kreuzzugsflotte mobilisiert, um diesen Sektor wieder unter imperiale Herrschaft zu bringen. An vorderster Front dieses Feldzugs kämpfen Kommissar-Oberst Ibram Gaunt und das Erste und Einzige Tanith-Regiment, besser bekannt als Gaunts Geister.

Als die TARDIS von einem holographischen Werbetrick heimgesucht wird, finden sich der Doktor und Donna plötzlich im Edifice wieder, einem Komplex von Luxus-Appartements im Weltall. Ihre neue Umgebung lässt zu wünschen übrig: Millionen von Wesen aus dem ganzen Universum wurden hier zusammengepfercht, um Seite an Seite in den Wohnungen zu leben. Statt ein nachbarschaftliches Miteinander zu entwickeln, führt das Zusammenleben zu Kleinkriegen in den Hausfluren und Treppenhäusern.