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title: Deliverance Lost
subtitle: Ghosts of Terra
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# Information

18th book in [[The Horus Heresy (Novels)]] by [[Gav Thorpe]]

Précédé par [[📕 The Outcast Dead]] by [[Graham McNeill]]
Suivit par [[📕 Know No Fear]] by [[Dan Abnett]]

# Summary

> Deliverance Lost is mainly concerned with the actions of Primarch Corvus Corax and his Space Marine Command, the 19th Legion or "Raven Guard", during the year following the Dropsite Massacre (Book [[📕 Fulgrim|5]]). However, operatives and the Primarch of the Alpha Legion play a prominent role. The story starts about 3 months after the Dropsite Massacre, with the unexpected rescue of Corax and the remnants of his Legion (at less than 5% strength due to casualties in that battle). Arriving at Terra a few months after the events described in [[📕 The Outcast Dead]] take place, Corax convinces the Emperor to impart to him the knowledge and material that may accelerate the rebuilding of his Legion. The second part of the novel describes the effort to reconstitute the Raven Guard, undertaken on Deliverance (its home world in Warhammer 40,000 fiction), and the pursuit of opposite objectives by the Alpha Legion. The novel features the reappearance of The Cabal (Book [[📕 Legion|7]]), and of other well-known characters; it also adds information about the developing strategies and subterfuge applied by the opposing sides, including reasons for Horus' timetable and for the Emperor's actions during the initial stages of the Heresy.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horus_Heresy_(novels)
# Notes

Corax rocks! and in the end, he should prevail.
Alpha legion is ambiguous at best.