Chains

Warhammer Crime Week 2022

by Jonathan D. Beer

A Melita Voronova Short Story

The gang-lord of the Spoil entertains an emissary who seeks to strike a bargain.

READ IT BECAUSE
It's a fraught negotiation between two rival cartels, with lives hanging in the balance.

THE STORY
Melita Voronova is sent to negotiate with Andreti Sorokin, the controlling gang-lord of the Spoil, on behalf of the Valtteri cartel for the release of a man with information the cartel wants.

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k

43 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 26, 2022

About the author

Jonathan D. Beer is a science fiction and alternative history writer, whose stories for Black Library include the novels THE KING OF THE SPOIL and DOMINION GENESIS, and several short stories.

Equally obsessed by the nineteenth century and the 41st millennium, he lives with his wife and assorted cats in the untamed wilderness of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Reviews

[AA_Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A direct continuation from Beer’s previous Warhammer Crime story, this takes some relatively standard scenarios and makes them very Varangantua. Hopefully this isn’t the end of this particular arc, because the imprint has been at it’s best with slow-burning storylines.

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent, I wasn't aware it was a follow-on from a previous short story that Jonathan had provided for a previous Warhammer Crime anthology.

[Jayme · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing quite like a cyberpunk cop v gangster chat in front of a gladiator pit. Solid imagery. Does its job to expand the liveliness of the Warhammer 40,000 universe