num_pages: 208
description: A Warhammer Horror NovelFollow in the footsteps of Rudgard Howe an enforcer cadet who while on their first mission and embroiled in an embittered succession battle back home uncovers a heinous sanguinary cultREAD IT BECAUSEIn the grim darkness of the far future horror lies in the most unlikely of places as a routine investigation becomes something all the more sinister.THE STORYOn the captital world of Potence young enforcer cadet Rudgard Howe is caught up in a bitter internecine feud to inherit his father's position of Chief Enforcer. As the tithe fleets approach he is sent on his first mission to ensure that the planet's distant agri-facilities fulfil their quotas to the God-Emperor. Farmed with serfs and managed by ex-Militarum soldiers the agri-facilities are places of shocking brutality and hopelessness. But when he is sent to the outlying farmstead of Thorsarbour Rudgard discovers a community where the crops are left to rot as the inhabitants indulge in the bloody ecstasy of a sanguinary cult. As Rudgard imposes the strict Lex Imperialis upon the farmstead he begins to uncover a place where sanity is rapidly slipping. Just a single step into his nightmarish mission though a series of cruel deaths threatens to dismantle everything he has ever known about the Imperium his faith in the Emperor and the strength of his very soul.
language: English
title: The Bookkeeper's Skull
publisher: Black Library