Harlequin — Ian Watson

BY HIS ORDER Jaq had condemned Meh'lindi to death. If her death were to be the diversion he required, she was accepting this. He distrusted her alien armour. He knew that she wasn't sprayed with an assassin's resistant synskin.

As the captain squeezed his trigger, Jaq threw himself in front of Meh'lindi, howling 'No!'

IN THE GRIM darkness of the 41st millennium, the Inquisition protects mankind from its many enemies, whether foul daemons or the inscrutable, alien eldar. But who will protect humanity if even the Inquisition becomes corrupted? Renegade Inquisitor Jaq Draco and his motley companions find themselves caught in a war that no one can win.., unless he can somehow access the ancient secrets hidden in the legendary Black Library.