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{{Book
|Name         =Blood Pact
|Image        =Blood-pact.jpg
|Image caption=Cover art.
|Author       ={{Auth|Dan Abnett}}
|Publisher    =[[Black Library (BL Publishing)|Black Library]]
|Series       =[[Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)|Gaunt's Ghosts]]
|Preceded by  =[[The Iron Star (Short Story)]]
|Followed by  =[[Salvation's Reach (Novel)|Salvation's Reach]]
|Released     =2009
|Pages        =316
|Collected in =[[The Victory (Omnibus)|The Victory]]
|Editions     =
}}
{{Otheruses
|USE=novel
|OTHERUSE=Chaos cult
|OTHERPAGE=Blood Pact
}}
'''Blood Pact''' is the twelfth novel in the [[Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)|Gaunt's Ghosts series]] by [[Dan Abnett]].

== Cover Description ==
The [[Tanith First]] have been pulled back from the front line and are enjoying some well-deserved rest.  But that is about to end.  An enemy prisoner – one of the deadly [[Blood Pact]] – wants to betray his masters, but he will only talk to [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]].  Can he be trusted, and what exactly does he know?  Gaunt must discover the truth and avert a deadly threat to both his own life and to the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]] itself.

==Synopsis==

After the gruelling events on [[Jago]], the [[Tanith First]] is removed from active service for the first time since its founding and sent to [[Balhaut]] to perform garrison duties. Two years on, however, the Ghosts are becoming restless from the lack of combat and purpose. A number of them go as far as committing crime to amuse themselves. [[Ibram Gaunt]] himself becomes increasingly idle and distracted, but remains confident that the Tanith First will return to the front again soon.

Events turn as Gaunt is summoned to Balhaut's [[Commissariat]] headquarters. A senior officer of the arch-enemy has been captured, and refuses to speak to anyone but Gaunt. The [[Inquisition]] is attempting to secure custody of the prisoner so that they may handle him their own way. The prisoner insists that he wishes to help the Imperium, but this claim is met with skepticism by Gaunt. However, he is forced to protect the prisoner and go to ground in the city when a [[Blood Pact]] insertion team storms the facility in an attempt to silence the prisoner. With heretical witchcraft influencing the populace and a determined hunter pursuing them, who can Gaunt turn to for aid? And what information does the traitor general know that prompts the enemy to openly assault an Imperial stronghold?


==Characters==

==Trivia==
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The plot of ''Blood Pact'' somewhat mirrors that of ''[[Traitor General (Novel)|Traitor General]]'', with [[Etogaur Mabbon]] in place of [[Noches Sturm]], but differs with the assassination squad holding the upper hand over their target's captors. The novel also provides greater detail of Gaunt's past tour on Balhaut during his service with the [[Hyrkan 8th]], before the founding of the Tanith First-and-Only.

==Sources==
*[https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-40000/novels/blood-pact-ebook.html Black Library]

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