Book description
Cities, even private individuals, may from time to time hire soldiers.
either to supplement their indigenous forces, or to conduct particular
ventures, perhaps of reprisal, perhaps even of acquisition. On Gor there
are numerous mercenary companies, some larger, some smaller, whose
services may be purchased, or bid upon, for given periods of time. The
allegiance of these companies is to their pay, and their captains. The
forces of Cos and Tyros, powerful maritime ubarates, and their allies,
have now beached upon the mainland, and are utilizing the city of
Torcodino as a repository for supplies, preparatory to marching on a
nigh-undefended and unprepared Ar. Should Ar fall the disinterested
tolerances and neutralities, and even the balance of power long
sustained between Ar and the great maritime ubarates, things which made
possible the existence of the independent companies, will vanish, a
development threatening the very existence of the independent companies.
In a surprise attack a mercenary captain, Dietrich of Tarnburg, seizes
Torcodino, intending to forestall the imminent march against Ar until
she has time to arm and defend herself. Cabot, en route to Ar, has
inadvertently been trapped in Torcodino when it was seized by Dietrich.
He agrees to carry secret and urgent letters for Dietrich, now besieged
in Torcodino, to the administration of Ar. Ar must act. But when Cabot
arrives in Ar it is a city riven by doubt and dissension, and treason.
To whom shall the letters be delivered, and whom can he trust? John
Norman is creator of the Gorean Saga, a series of novels spanning dozens
of titles that began in 1967 with TARNSMAN OF GOR and that are
considered to be cult classics. He has also produced a three-installment
fictional series, Telnarian Histories, plus two other fiction works and
a nonfiction paperback entitled IMAGINATIVE SEX. He continues to write
new novels in the Gorean saga, notably WITNESS OF GOR (2002) and PRIZE
OF GOR (2008), both published by E-Reads. At Gor Chronicles, a web site
specially created for his tremendous fan following, one may read
everything there is to know about this unique fictional culture. Mr.
Norman was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1931. He is married and has
three children.
