In the Chaos-infested Sabbatt system, the massed ranks of the Imperial Guard stand shoulder to shoulder as they counter an invasion by heretical forces.

Amongst the Guard are the troops of the Tanith First-and-Only, a displaced army forcedto flee their home planet before it succumbed to the unrelenting assualt of Chaos. Nicknamed the Ghosts, their specialist scouting role has thrown them into the thickest of the fighting, trying to complete whatever desperate mission their uncaring commanders have volunteered them for!

Now Gaunt must evade the treacherous scheming of rival regiments and the lethal firepower of the enemy if he is to win through and lead his Ghosts to victory!

The Founding collects the novels First and Only, Ghostmaker, Necropolis and the short story In Remembrance.