His Last Command (Novel)

His Last Command is the ninth volume in the Gaunt's Ghosts series of novels by Dan Abnett.

Synopsis
The Tanith First-and-Only are no more. Moved into another regiment under a charismatic new commander, the loyalties of the former Ghosts are put to the test when Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, long believed dead, returns. As the enemy overrun the Imperial forces, clashing with Crusade command, and suspected of harbouring the taint of Chaos, Gaunt must fight not only to be reunited with his Ghosts, but to stop all their lives being thrown away in an unwinnable war.