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The Last Ditch

Ciaphas Cain: Warhammer 40,000, Book 8

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The Last Ditch

By: Sandy Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Toby Longworth, Andrew James Spooner
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About this listen

Book 8 of the Ciaphas Cain series.

The Imperium's least willing hero is thrown back into the fight against another alien threat as Commissar Cain returns to a frozen planet to battle an incursion by monstrous orks.

Listen to it because....

It's a rip-roaring action adventure tale with a few daring twists and a whole load of that typical Ciaphas Cain humour. The opening sequence—involving a dramatic star ship crash—is particularly exciting.

The story:

Imperial commissar Ciaphas Cain returns to Nusquam Fundumentibus to crush the ork attacks which have been plaguing the frozen planet. But when his ship crashes into the wastelands outside the capital, it disturbs a far greater enemy, one which has lain dormant under the permafrost since long before the Imperium came to this world and could now threaten the whole sector. Faced with ongoing greenskin raids and keeping an over-enthusiastic novice commissar under control, Cain must rally his men and confront whatever emerges from beneath the rapidly melting ice....

Written by Sandy Mitchell. Narrated by Stephen Perring, Penelope Rawlins, Emma Gregory, Toby Longworth, Andrew James Spooner. Run time 9 hours and 30 minutes.

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As usual the performances of the voice actors were outstanding, but I struggled to stay as engaged with the story of "The Last Ditch".

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Sandy Mitchell comes through yet again with a strong follow up in an already impressively stimulating 40k series. the characters, writing, pace, comedy, even the voice cast are great. listen to this series, it's great

another bloody win

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I realy loved the 1960's style news report, so cool. oh Yurgon you smelly champ what now?

Another awesome job Mr Mitchell, well done!

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I liked it allot.
as a fan of the series I really enjoyed this one.

great

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really good story as always this series has been my favourite , might name my first child after ciaphas fifteen words seems a lot more annoying to come up with on the spot

epic

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another great instalment on the Cain series. if you enjoyed the others, you'll like this one too.

another great instalment on the Cain series.

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A quick and super fun listen, I’ve read the book and
Fully enjoyed the narration.

Voice acting superb.

Enjoy every single one of Cain audiobooks

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This is the first time I have listened to this novel, and it is just brilliant as the rest is definitely worth the listern

entertaining

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Great listen and story. The thrills were better written here than in emperors finest imo

Solid

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