Gaunt's Ghosts Books in Order

Commissar Ibram Gaunt leads the Tanith First and Only through the trenches of Fortis Binary during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. A conspiracy against Warmaster Macaroth forces the regiment to confront enemies among its supposed allies.

Awaiting battle in Monthax's jungles, Gaunt recalls the soldiers' earlier exploits and the destruction of their homeworld. Linked accounts reveal the individual histories, conflicts, and acts of courage that have shaped the Tanith First and Only.

Two hive cities wage war on Verghast, drawing the Imperial Guard into Vervunhive's desperate defense against Chaos. Gaunt must overcome bitter rivalries and treachery within the defenders as an increasingly brutal siege threatens the city.

Gaunt's Ghosts fight to hold a shrine-world of immense strategic and religious importance against Chaos forces. Gaunt receives a desperate mission to retrieve a saint's remains, racing across a dying planet to preserve the relic at the campaign's heart.

Gaunt's lightly armed scouts are thrown into the entrenched stalemate on Aexe Cardinal, where artillery threatens them constantly. To escape a battlefield unsuited to their skills, the Ghosts volunteer for a mission others consider too dangerous.

Chaos counterattacks have cut off Imperial forces during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only must recapture the strategically important world of Phantine, attempting to restore hope to the Emperor's embattled armies.

A woman claiming to be Saint Sabbat reborn summons Gaunt's Ghosts to protect her during the crusade. Gaunt must determine whether her claim is true while facing enemy forces, assassins, and dangerous divisions within his regiment.

An Imperial general's defection threatens to expose secrets vital to the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Gaunt leads a small team onto an enemy-held planet, where they must work with resistance fighters and stop the traitor from speaking.

Gaunt returns to find his Ghosts absorbed into another regiment and loyal to a new commander. Suspected of Chaos corruption, he must regain their trust while challenging orders that threaten to waste their lives in a hopeless campaign.

Returning to Gereon with an Imperial liberation army, Gaunt hopes to fulfill his promise to its resistance fighters. Instead he finds a war-ravaged population marked by Chaos, whose survival may be threatened by the liberators themselves.

Ordered to hold an abandoned fortress on Jago, Gaunt's Ghosts find unreliable maps, scarce water, and unsettling echoes. As an overwhelming enemy attacks, apparent hauntings within the stronghold threaten the regiment's courage and ability to survive.

After the ordeal of Only in Death, Ibram Gaunt leads his Ghosts in defending a bridge beneath a disturbing sky. Dead soldiers appear alive and time behaves strangely, leaving the exhausted commander to question the reality of this battle.

An enemy prisoner offers information about the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, but insists on speaking to Gaunt. As the rested Tanith First struggles with inactivity, Blood Pact assassins threaten to silence the captive before his secrets emerge.

Gaunt's Ghosts undertake a raid on the remote stronghold of Salvation's Reach, where secrets could change the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. After a long period in reserve, the regiment faces a mission that may demand everything.

Gaunt's Ghosts race to the besieged forge world of Urdesh, where Warmaster Macaroth commands the Imperial campaign. Gaunt must consider whether the enemy's assault aims to capture a planet or destroy the crusade's leadership.

On Urdesh, Imperial forces confront the Anarch and his elite Sons of Sek in a battle that could decide the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Serving beside Warmaster Macaroth, Gaunt faces an enemy whose plans extend beyond the battlefield.

This anthology opens up the wider Sabbat Worlds war beyond Gaunt's Ghosts, moving across battlefields, commanders, and enemy lines. Aaron Dembski Bowden's story brings a darkly clever Blood Pact mystery into the middle of the crusade.

Mabbon Etogaur has betrayed multiple allegiances and now supplies intelligence to the Tanith First. Confined to a cell and distrusted by the regiment, he encounters an unexpected possibility of understanding through conversation with a captor.

Newly formed Gaunt's Ghosts are assigned to keep order in the ruined town of Vincula. Their policing duty becomes a dangerous investigation when a hidden killer stalks the regiment, exposing unsettling questions about the soldiers themselves.