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The Traitor's Hand

Written by: Sandy Mitchell
Narrated by: Stephen Perring,Penelope Rawlins,Andrew James Spooner,Emma Gregory
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Book three of the Ciaphas Cain series.  

An old rival, infighting with fellow Astra Militarum regiments and the small matter of a cult devoted to the Chaos God Slaanesh derail Commissar Cain's hope for a quiet and uneventful mission.  

Ciaphas Cain's latest mission takes him and his Valhallan regiment to the planet of Adumbria to defend against an approaching Chaos invasion. However, infighting with fellow Imperial Guard regiments from the world of Tallarn, commanded by an old 'friend' of Cain's from the Schola Progenium and the uprising of a sinister cult on the planet puts paid to any hopes of an easy life.

©2020 Games Workshop Limited (P)2020 Games Workshop Limited

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Awesome performance and voice acting

I listened to the first book on a whim and instantly got sucked in by the writing and the performance. The narrator's do a great job! if you liked the first book, you will like this one too.

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Never disappoints

I just wish GW would make a model worthy of Commissar Caine. Another great adventure.

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Great book yet again

yet again another great book from Sandy Mitchell.
Only downside is that sometime you can hear the re-take of some of the line because of passing or audio quality and the chapter are not properly divide in the app.

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can't get enough of this series

Another banger by Sandy Mitchell. the performances were top notch as usual. This production team has it down.

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Excellent

thoroughly enjoyed both the story and narration, this series is the entire reason for me getting audible!

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Its Cain. Nuff said.

Its a Cain story by Sandy Mitchell, which is always fun. The narration is on point and really matches the tones and emotions I created in my own mind when reading the books.

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Excellent

Great narration and story, typical Cain book, even funnier than usual, no lulls, great book.

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Solid

An excellent warhammer series if you are a guard fan. Story has been strong so far and I'll be continuing to read them

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Let’s have more!!!!

Very entertaining and quick paced story!! As with the first two it is well worth the listen!!! Let’s hope for more!!!

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Awesome

can't wait for the next one in the series. one of my favorite heroes! always a bad situation lol

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  • 2020-06-30

Narrator’s audio outtakes literally left in

Good book but there are a few places where you can hear the narrator mess up on his lines a few times and try again. Really jarring and kind of broke the immersion so hopefully they push an update to fix this.

Besides that though, this is classic Ciaphas Cain. My one complaint about the story is it kinda makes chaos marines seem a bit easier to kill than one would expect but that’s just a minor nitpick.

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  • 2020-07-03

narater awesome, but they forgot to Edit

they forgot to Edit the reading.
story is great, narators are awesome.
bloody anoying that the editor did'nt do his job

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  • 2021-03-03

Fixed The Recording Issues, Worth Every Second

The top review here talks about how there are bloopers left in the recording, and i guess, by the glory of the Emperor, someone went back and fixed it. There were parts that definitely played over each other for a fraction of a second, but nowhere near enough to take away from Steven's amazing reading of one of my favorite characters in the Warhammer 40k universe.

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  • Portia D. Besocke
  • 2020-08-13

Good as all ways

Jurgen is the best assist to a commissar in the hole imperium am I right

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  • JJJ
  • 2020-08-28

Another great addition to the series

The action was top notch, as usual.
The story line was interesting, a lot of plot points get recycled from previous entries.
The performance was what really made this another level. Bringing in as much talent as they have, really enhanced the experience

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  • Cersox
  • 2021-09-02

Good story, bad formatting

Although this holds up just as well as the first 2 Cain books, the formatting has been done poorly. After a while, I'd noticed the chapters would be marked halfway through the previous chapter.

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  • Wanderer
  • 2020-06-21

Hero of the Imperium

I love Cain and his band of Valhallans. The presence of Slaanesh cultists was pretty neat to witness as they seldom appear in novels.

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  • J. Walker
  • 2021-12-11

The story's good enough but...

The story's good enough but, emperor's bowels, the chapter stops are all fracked up! Don't let that put you off though.

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  • Crystal Shaw
  • 2021-06-16

fantastic reading even better story!

if you are an astra militarum or any 40k fan you should gove this a listen.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 2021-05-21

A fun cliche on scifi and heroism.

Go into the book with the idea of tongue and cheek takes and enjoy a reluctant hero/ anti hero journey!

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  • 2020-06-16

Is there a way to have the next Cain faster?

excellent book simply, the story is fun with enough tension to keep you listening and have enough humour to make you laugh

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