Deathwatch 1 ( BL2769 )

The winners of 2025’s Black Library Reader’s Choice vote also arrive for pre-order next week, starting with Steve Parker’s classic Warhammer 40,000 novel, Deathwatch, which is available once again in paperback format.

Follow the Imperium's foremost xenos hunters as they take centre stage in a novel that showcases their selection, training, and the dangerous mission they undertake in defence of the Emperor's realm. 

Action packed novel featuring the galaxies foremost alien hunting taskforce, the Deathwatch. Led by Librarian Karras, the elite alien-hunting Talon Squad must penetrate a genestealer lair and put the abominations to the flame or face the consequences of an entire planet's extinction.

Gathered from the many Chapters of Space Marines, the Deathwatch are elite, charged with defending the Imerium of Man from aliens. Six Space Marines, strangers from different words, make up Talon Squad. On 31-Caro, a new terror has emerged, a murderous shadow that stalks the dark, and only the Deathwatch can stop it. Underthe direction of a mysterious Inquisitor Lord known only as Sigma, they must cleanse this planet or die in the attempt.