Book description
The Faceless Man is a prisoner in his own palace. His power over the
people of Durdane is in the hands of Gastel Etzwane, a youth whose
thirst for vengeance against the dreaded Rogushkoi would be slaked only
by oceans of their blood. For these invincible foes who threatened
Durdane had taken and killed his mother and sister. To destroy the
Rogushkoi Gastel would have to unite a world that survived only through
its separateness. It was more than dangerous, but he had no choice. If
they were to fight the people must regain control of their own lives.
Only then could Gastel recruit an elite corps of the liberated--the
Brave Free Men--to fling against the Rogushkoi and fight to the death.
Jack Vance (1916 - ) Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining,
engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the
Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice.
He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s
and published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many
books are The Dragon Masters, for which he won his first Hugo Award, Big
Planet, The Anome, and the Lyonesse sequence. He has won the Hugo,
Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, amongst others, and in 1997 was named a
Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
