Michael wants to read Mechanicum by Graham McNeill (The Horus Heresy, #9)
Another solid book, although I must admit I'm never a fan of plots, schemes and other assorted cloak-and-dagger stuff. But in this book, the reader is rewarded with a new (for the Heresy books) point of view, namely the Imperial Army. Most of the protagonists in this book aren't Astartes, they're human soldiers of the army, and the leader gets a glimpse into their lives.
And while I don't like cloak-and-dagger too much, I can appreciate what the author did here: The Alpha legion is supposed to be very clandestine and secretive. Introducing them not from the PoV of one of their captains but from the PoV of external observers, namely the army, allows the author to keep this aura of secrecy intact. It was nicely done.
