Ciaphas Cain Choose Your Enemies Audiobook Jun 2026

Sandy Mitchell’s writing is witty, but the audiobook makes it hilarious. The key to Cain is that he is an unreliable narrator. He insists he is a coward who only survives via luck and manipulation. Yet, the audiobook allows you to hear the subtle shift in his voice when he actually does something heroic—he sounds surprised.

Choose Your Enemies does exactly what a Ciaphas Cain story should do: it makes you laugh while describing a nightmare dystopia. The audiobook format, driven by Perring and Rawlins’ chemistry, elevates Sandy Mitchell’s clever prose into a performance.

: Narrate various in-universe documents, military reports, and propaganda snippets scattered throughout the story.

Long-time fans are thrilled to have Cain back. Reviews describe the book as "well-written" with "lots of fun footnotes." One fan called it "one of the greatest and most enjoyable books in the warhammer 40k universe," finding it refreshing that the author avoided many of the overused tropes that had begun to appear in the series. Readers note that Cain's characterization remains perfect, with the Commissar being "dragged into the thick of it while desperately trying to keep his skin intact," just as fans love.