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Twelfth novel in the Gaunt's Ghosts series by Dan Abnett. After the fighting on Jago, the Tanith First are stationed on Balhaut for garrison duties when a high-ranking enemy prisoner insists on speaking only to Colonel-Commissar Gaunt; the situation rapidly escalates as Blood Pact operatives move to silence the prisoner and Gaunt is forced into a deadly game of survival in the city.