Warlord of Antares

Warlord of AntaresDray Prescot has been described by someone who has seen him on this Earth as a man above middle height with brown hair and level brown eyes, brooding and dominating, with enormously broad shoulders and powerful physique. He moves like a savage hunting cat, silent and deadly. There is about him an abrasive honesty and an indomitable courage. Reared in the harsh conditions of Nelson’s Navy, he failed to find success on Earth. When the Savanti nal Aphrasöe selected and then rejected him for their purposes, he was taken up by the Everoinye, the Star Lords. They have flung him through four hundred light-years of empty space to the planet Kregen, orbiting the binary Antares, many times. On Kregen, beautiful and terrible, exotic and mysterious, Prescot’s innate talents flowered and he secured success beyond his wildest dreams. Now the grouping of continents and islands called Paz are threatened by the Shanks, fish-headed reivers from over the curve of the world. Prescot’s task now is to unite all of Paz in alliance against the aggressors. Not all the people of Paz are willing to forget their old enmities. And there is Csitra, the Witch of Loh, who lusts after Prescot and would drag down all of Vallia to ruin for his sake. In the passionate, shrewd, charismatic figure of Delia of Delphond, and his family and blade comrades, Prescot possesses riches past the mundane dreams of empire. Alan Burt Akers