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Warhammer 40,000

The Last Detail

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The last survivors of a world devastated by Chaos – a father and son – find a Space Marine of the Dark Hunters Chapter, badly wounded, infected with a deadly pathogen and in need of their aid. Together, they must break through the massed forces of the enemy and summon aid, before the world becomes a shrine to the dread forces of the Ruinous Powers.

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Trapped on a devastated world, a father and son must assist a wounded Space Marine as he tries to contact his Chapter and save the planet from eternal damnation.

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2011

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Paul Kearney

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Paul Kearney was born in rural County Antrim, Ireland, in 1967. His father was a butcher, and his mother was a nurse. He rode horses, had lots of cousins, and cut turf and baled hay. He often smelled of cowshit.

He grew up through the worst of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, a time when bombs and gunfire were part of every healthy young boy's adolescence. He developed an unhealthy interest in firearms and Blowing Things Up - but what growing boy hasn't?

By some fluke of fate he managed to get to Oxford University, and studied Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English.

He began writing books because he had no other choice. His first, written at aged sixteen, was a magnificent epic, influenced heavily by James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Robert E Howard, and Playboy. It was enormous, colourful, purple-prosed, and featured a lot of Very Large Swords.

His second was rather better, and was published by Victor Gollancz over a very boozy lunch with a very shrewd editor.

Luckily, in those days editors met authors face to face, and Kearney's Irish charm wangled him a long series of contracts with Gollancz, and other publishers. He still thinks he can't write for toffee, but others have, insanely, begged to differ.

Kearney has been writing full-time for twenty-eight years now, and can't imagine doing anything else. Though he has often tried.

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