Dan Abnett's acclaimed trilogy follows the glorious exploits of Imperial Inquisitor Ravenor and his team of fearless operatives. Three novels, supplemented by short stories and the author's preface, under one cover! In the forty-first millennium, the Inquisition wages a secret war against the enemies of humanity - xenos, demons, heretics. Gideon Ravenor is a powerful psyker with virtually unlimited powers - and a hopeless cripple, imprisoned in a life support capsule. For many years and parsecs, he and his squad have been pursuing the elusive heretic Sigmund Moloch, an inveterate sociopath and sorcerer, wreaking havoc and destruction on the worlds of the Imperium. Pursuing the enemy, both in explored space and on the wild outskirts of the Galaxy, Ravenor will more than once find himself on the verge of death and suffer more than one loss. Victory in this confrontation will be Pyrrhic. As, indeed, are most victories in a world where there is only war and the laughter of thirsty gods...