FANTASY-GEORGE QUINTERUS WAS SEEKING THE RASON FOR AN OUTBREAK OF SENSELESS MURDERS-EACH ONE COMMITTED WITH A MYSTERIOUS,ILL-FASHIONED SWORD.BURIED IN THE MUSTY PAGES OF ANCIENT BOOKS,HE FOUND THAT THE PRIMITIVE WEAPON HAD BEEN FASHIONED EONS AGO AT A TIME OF SHAMANISTIC SPELLS AND FORGOTTEN KNOWLEDGE.HAD THIS WEAPON SOMEHOW COME DOWN THROUGH THE AGES,IT'S THIRST FOR VENGEANCE NEVER SATED?OR WAS IT BEING USED BY A MYSTERIOUS LEAGUE OF KILLERS,ABLE TO CONTROL MINDS AT A DISTANCE?IN EITHER CASE,THE SWORD WAS DRAWING INNOCENT BLOOD AND RULING IT'S POSSESSORS WITH A DARK POWER THAT ONLY THE UNFORTUNATE CHOSEN COULD UNDERSTAND-BUT NEVER RESIST.SOMEHOW,QUINTERUS COULD NOT ABANDON HIS RECKLESS QUEST-THEN HE SUDDENLY AND INEXPLICABLY FOUND HIMSELF PRESENTED WITH THE SWORD!
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0345256506
- ISBN 13 9780345256508
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Edition number1
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