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Cain's Last Stand (Ciaphas Cain #6)
After a long and distinguished career, Commissar Cain is about to enjoy a well-deserved retirement, but when a Black Crusade threatens the sector, everyone must rise to the defence, including Cain and his cadets. Can this unlikely hero prove himself one last time?
Mass Market Paperback, 416 pages
Published
October 28th 2008
by Games Workshop
(first published 2008)
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Cain’s Last Stand is the third book of the second Cain trilogy. It brings Ciaphas Cain, Liberator of Perlia, back to the planet where he defeated the dreaded greenskins by destroying a dam and drowning an entire army. The novel may be the same “bat-channel,” but it doesn’t include the same enemies. In fact, in a reverse-Marvel Team-Up, it features more than one enemy. Cain, the Harry Flashman of humanity’s dark future, doesn’t have those itching hands for nothing. [My maternal grandmother used t...more
This was a great book about the adventure of a very reluctant hero who is basically tasked with saving a world from impossible odds… if only to save his own neck.
Commissar Ciaphas Cain (try saying that 3 times fast!), is a legend in his own time. He is know through-out the Imperium as a hero many times over. So it is no surprise that the general populace of Perlia looks to Cain, who has long since retired and now lives on Perlia, to save them from the forces of a powerful deadly enemy.
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Commissar Ciaphas Cain (try saying that 3 times fast!), is a legend in his own time. He is know through-out the Imperium as a hero many times over. So it is no surprise that the general populace of Perlia looks to Cain, who has long since retired and now lives on Perlia, to save them from the forces of a powerful deadly enemy.
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Another fun adventure for the wily commissar. Ciaphas Cain is finally enjoying retirement. I bet he was thinking he was safe, that he made it to retirement in one piece. Plus, nice cushy job in a schola teaching cadet commissars. Life is good. But trouble and mayhem just have a way to find him. So, when a Dark Crusade threatens Perlia, Cain and his cadets along with every able-bodied person have to rise to the defense of the planet. He will have to use all his guile and skill to make it through ...more
Good pulp, but very very repetitive from the earlier Cain books.
A great entry to the series. The action and plotting are consistent with the rest of the series. It was a good, light book to read and exactly the tone needed for the series and characters. Some plot lines are continued from earlier books; some good references and tie-ins to the earlier books are linked in. And Jurgen is as Jurgen as ever. It will be sad if this is the last we hear.
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