Product DescriptionSecond novel in the Time of Legends: The Black Plague seriesThe Black Plague spreads across the Empire, followed by a tide of monsters from legend: the skaven. In Altdorf, Emperor Boris’s troops valiantly hold off the ratmen while the corrupt Emperor escapes to safety. In Middenheim, Graf Gunthar and his son Mandred defend their city against a horde of the vile invaders. And in Sylvania, the skaven find more than they had expected in the form of the necromancer Vanhal and his army of the dead... an army that gets larger as the plague worsens.About the AuthorC. L. Werner was a diseased servant of the Horned Rat long before his first story in Inferno! magazine. His Black Library credits include the Chaos Wastes books, Mathias Thulmann: Witch Hunter, Runefang, the Brunner the Bounty Hunter trilogy and the Thanquol and Boneripper series. Currently living in the American south-west, he continues to write stories of mayhem and madness set in the Warhammer World.

Witch hunter Mathias Thulmann is desperately searching for the forbidden tome, Das Buch die Unholden. Trailing the thieves that stole it into the wildest reaches of the Empire, Thulmann and his murderous assistant Streng end up in a mysterious, isolated town.

THE STORYGrey Seer Thanquol’s latest scheme is going exactly to plan, until base treachery and incompetent underlings leave his mind stuck in the body of his faithful rat ogre, Boneripper…