Book description
As the Angostin battle hordes surge over the Southern Borders of the
Highlands, the bandit, Jarek Mace, and his friend, the magicker and bard
Owen Odell find themselves in a country in desperate need of heroes. The
invaders have no respect for person or place, stealing and laying waste
to everything in their path. Behind them evil sorcery is unleashed as a
mad necromancer brings back to halflife the eons-dead Vampyre Kings.
Only Mace has the courage to stand up to the Angostins and the Undead:
soon he is hailed as a figure of myth, the legendary Morningstar come to
save his people once more. But only one person really knows Mace: Odell
remembers how the now famous bandit was once but a thief and
philanderer, who would as soon cut a purse string or a throat for the
price of a meal. As the final climactic battle approaches and strange
manifestations occur, Odell wonders which of the two Maces will triumph:
the self-serving thief or the saviour of his people, the Morningstar.
David Gemmell's first novel, LEGEND was published in 1984, beginning his
acclaimed Drenai saga. He was widely regarded as Britain's king of
heroic fantasy. He died in July 2006.
