Grey Knights by Ben Counter.
The Grey Knight trilogy offers an insight into the danger and resilience needed for them to be able to combat the daemons of the Warp. Ben Counter starts this well thought out novel with a battle that cements that fact, and continues to expand on it through the remainder of the trilogy. The Grey Knight are a standalone chapter of Astartes in so far as they work extremely closely with the Inquisition and all marines have to be psychically receptive in order to be able to start the process of transformation.
This novel is a good starting point if you wish to learn a bit more about what they contend with and just how much is at stake should they lose. There are twists and turns within the story and the end tidies them up nicely and leaves possibilities to continue with the sequel. With this novel, we are following a Justiciar and his squad on an investigation into heretical cults and the possibilities of the potential summoning of one of the strongest Daemon Princes being unleashed by a traitorous Inquisitor. With this story framework Ben Counter shows again his ability to pace a story and yet not have big gaps of stagnant plotlines that are found sometimes with some of the other books. There isn't action all the way through that takes over the plot, there are times of introspection and character building. I wholeheartedly recommend this book as one that a fan of the more daemonic and Warp related dangers that the Imperium faces.
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