I bought this when it came out, i've read it 2x since then and gave it away to a friend who hadn't read any 40k books. I'm now buying another copy so I can read it again. When I started reading several hours slipped right by that felt more like 30 minutes, even after that I had a hard time putting it down. This was the first of Dan Abnett's book i'd read and have read all 40k novels he has written since then. I think all the guys on the cover should've had their helmets on though the faces aren't really all that good.