Storm of Iron

Classic Warhammer 40k Black Library fair.

When the Iron Warriors fall on an impregnable fortress surrounded by a radio-active desert, it is up to a battalion of Imperial Guardsmen and a small cadre of Imperial Fist space marines to try to hold their bastion against the galaxy's best siege breakers, all the while battling duplicitous priests of Mars and trying to discover why the Iron Warriors would come to such a backwater planet in such numbers. Can they hold the line, or will they be swept away by the storm of Iron?

There isn't anything subtle or particularly imaginative about Storm of Iron. But, it is classic Black Library - lots of explosions, gore, death and grim-dark. It is a bit of a classic though, one of the earlier novels and it still holds up well if you like this sort of thing. This is not a clever book, the plot is extremely linear and the characters are generally painted in primary colours. This is the kind of book where you know what you are getting and that is exactly what you get. If that is what you wanted in the first place, then great.

For that reason, I Would not necessarily recommend it to someone who was new to the universe, or to pulp sci-fi in general. But, definitely recommended for any Iron Warriors fans, and it is a solid entry if you already know you love Warhammer 40k novels.