The Bleeding Chalice

by Ben Counter

Book Overview

After the Soul Drinkers Space Marines are excommunicated, Imperial Agents are dispatched to destroy the once loyal chapter. Sarpedon, the leader of the Soul Drinkers, is hell-bent on discovering a way... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844160548
• ISBN13: 9781844160549
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Black Library
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Eclipsed only by Storm of Iron, but otherwise still a great read

I gotta get this off my chest: why are some reviewers giving away storylines and plots? Hello? you are ruining people's potential reading experiences :( That said, I need to post reviews sooner after finishing the book! Bleeding Chalice Great! but I'm afraid I don't recall Soul Drinker as well anymore. Gotta read it again :) Complements to you Ben. Loved "Daemon World" ! Bleeding Chalice: Definitely enthralling. Cool storyline with lots of new WH40k concepts and technology. Also many twists that cover the ending rather well. I can't say that I'm fully sold on the mutant thing but with these guys having no choice but to try and stick together they pull it off rather well.

Drink this in ...

The Soul Drinkers are back in this epic fiction from BL. Counter out does himself here, and this is even better than the first in the series. Epic battles, psychological struggles, and great writing. Counter has a real touch for the grim darkness of the far future, and his fiction is great.

The height of WH40k novels

As the second segment of the Soul Drinker novels, the Bleeding Chalice captures the epic nature of battle in "the grim dark future." Counter seems to have a great knack for pacing and giving the reader a sense of the desperation of the characters as they fight for their lives their own redemption. All you space marine fans will love the examination of their role on the battlefield.

The dead have risen! To read this book!

Like Ben Counter's previous novel, Soul Drinker, this is a great novel for fans of the 40k universe. Brutal, over-the-top violence fills nearly every page, and the huge scope of events gives the novel an epic feel.Having been excommunicated from the Imperium, the Soul Drinkers continue to wage war against Chaos, as well as their former masters in the Empire. Their impossible goal is to save their chapter by finding a cure for the chaos which has tainted them. Following close on their heels is a ruthless, macchiavellian inquisition determined to exterminate the renegade marines at any price. Meanwhile, an army of the dead has risen on dozens of planets, and threatens to overtake the entire sector.Ben Counter does a great job envisioning and communicating his tale. In usual 40K form, the novel seeks to impress the reader with carnage on a massive scale, and succeeds.