Interceptor City

Warhammer 40,000 Series

By: Dan Abnett

Narrated by: Toby Longworth

A Warhammer 40,000 Audiobook

With the Imperial forces locked in a gruelling war of attrition over the dead hive city of Vesperus, a former ace fighter pilot returns to the cockpit as the Aeronautica risks it all to secure Interceptor City for the Imperium.

LISTEN TO IT BECAUSE

Twenty years after the release of the highly acclaimed Double Eagle, Dan Abnett returns to the Aeronautica Imperialis for the long-awaited follow-up. Follow along as an ace dogfighter is forced out of her comfortable “retirement” and back into deadly aerial combat.

THE STORY

Former ace fighter pilot Bree Jagdea’s days of high-octane, white-knuckle dogfights are long behind her. Content with executing supply runs for the war effort, Jagdea considers herself retired. But when enemy forces start a relentless bombing campaign through the hive city of Vesperus, Jagdea is forced back into the Aeronautica – stationed with the infamous Circus 66 squadron, executing near-suicidal dead-drops and blistering interception runs through Vesperus’ lethal rat runs.

Plunged back into a world where the smallest of errors means instant death, can Jagdea outfly the enemy aces, secure Interceptor City for the Imperium, and return to solid ground with her sanity intact?

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They aeronautica remembers

Dan and Toby can have their way with me, they make every book the write and voice 4A.

What a Banger!

This is as my first Aeronautica Imperialis Novel and I couldn’t have enjoyed it more! Dan is a peerless author as always and Toby brings the book to life in ways few other BL narrators can! 10/10 recommend

Dan Abnett Triumphs Again

It's hard to place exactly what makes this book so good because it really incorporates so many elements together in a neat package. The pacing keeps you listening, the fidelity to the technical details of the "vector aircraft" is believable and well thought out, of course the action sequences are extremely intense as you might expect from his previous title 'Double Eagle', overall I think the characters might be the strongest point in this. Abnett writes a whole cast of very unique and endearing characters to flesh out the "Circus 66" airbase. Several of the characters have a lot of depth and are still in my thoughts after completing the book. Overall, if you like high octane aerial battles with complex characters in an elaborately designed and fleshed out SciFi world, you'll love Interceptor City.

Dan Abnett on form

This is peak Warhammer 40k. It is a solid production of Black Library’s best author -disagree? I will fight you*- well read by their premier narrator. It is a fascinating character study of a squadron on the edge and burnt out has beens. It looks at how a variety of personality types manage knowing that their death or maiming isn’t a question of if but of when. Added to this is the knowledge that their chain of command has put their mission so far above their welfare that they are truly expendable. It makes for a good grimdark read.

I generally hate “pilot” heroes. Part of that’s my personal bias as a former ground pounder whose every experience with the air force has been disappointing at best and a source of rage at worse (even years later). But most of it is difficulty working up sympathy for characters who are lauded as special while they get to return to clean beds and dinning halls after brief missions fought from a comfortable seat. BUT Abnett pulls it off brilliantly. He did it.

My only criticism is that the air combat is nearly impossible to follow and goes on a bit long. I had to hit the 30second repeat button a lot.

Listen for a great war story with really gripping character development that top 10% 40k.

*other authors have written 40k books that are as good if not better, but Abnett is the most consistently good with a long track record.

4A

Dan knows what he's doing, I love the cross series continuity and the feel of his works. This story delivers, the characters are amazing and The narrators performance is too notch.