An evil city, banished into limbo, starts to appear after a thousand years when the once powerful spells that held it there start to wane. Waylander, the assassin hero of some of Gemmell's earlier books, returns, but he has now reached middle aged, and more interested in peace than trouble.

David Gemmell's first novel and the first in the Drenai saga - a classic of heroic fantasy.

Britain's king of heroic fantasy continues his classic, bestselling Drenai saga

Britain's king of heroic fantasy continues his classic, bestselling Drenai saga.

Britain's king of heroic fantasy continues his classic, bestselling Drenai saga.

For centuries the tribes of the Nadir have suffered under the tyranny of their Gothir overlords. Distrustful of one another the tribes await the coming of a Messianic warlord, who will unite them. Into this swirling, chaotic landscape come three men who will change the fate of the continent.