The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus

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In a overall, I know there are people that compare the Dan Abnett series of Gaunts with Sharp series.

The first is Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint by Matthew Farrer, focusing on the Iron Snakes and continuing the Sabbat Worlds saga on Urdesh. They are seeded into the setting, the plot, and the words of characters in a way that may not fully sink in until you've read the novels several times, which I did, for all 17. Can the Tanith First-And-Only survive the dangers they are faced with, or will they be forever lost? They discover an ancient portal leading to one of the Eldar's craftworlds, self-sustaining cities in space, which the inquisitor, Lilith Abferquan, closes after the alien Farseer guarding the portal dies. In Remembrance - This takes place roughly around the the time the story in Necropolis is drawing to a close.

The second is a fictional history of the Crusade, from the beginnings of the crusade 10 years before the setting of the first novel to a point just after Sabbat Martyr, providing an overview of the crusade as a whole. On Herodor the Ghosts are tasked with protecting a girl claiming to be the reincarnation of Saint Sabbat while assassins close in on her. It avoids glorifying the conflicts the Guard take part in, and lets us see them as humanity doing its best to survive, to do the right thing, and to make things better.

With countless fanatical soldiers and foul warp-beings standing between the rescue team and their target, Gaunt and his men must not only fight for their lives, but also resist the corruption of Chaos that threatens to overwhelm them.Nicknamed the Ghosts, their specialist scouting role has thrown them into the thickest of the fighting, trying to complete whatever desperate mission their uncaring commanders have volunteered them for. By about the middle of this brick of a book I was convinced this collection was maybe a 2 or 2 1/2 star. Commissar Ibram Gaunt and the Hyrkan 8th are deployed in the underways of Formal Prime, during the final stage of Operation Redrake, Warmaster Slaydo's initial advance into the Sabbat Worlds.