The men of the Tanith First-and-Only await news of their next deployment, but when an enemy prisoner is brought in for interrogation, Gaunt is drawn into a murderous web of intrigue. Can anyone be trusted? Pulled back from the font line of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, the men of the Tanith First-and-Only await news of their next deployment. But when an enemy prisoner is brought for interrogation, Gaunt is drawn into a murderous web of intrigue. Who can be trusted, and exactly what does the prisoner know that makes him so valuable? The fate of the crusade rests upon the answers, and Gaunt must find them out before he is eliminated.