The Hounds of Skaith

In The Secret of Sinharat and The Ginger Star, mercenary Eric John Stark traveled to the dying world of Skaith in search of his missing foster father, only to find himself hunted by the government and the subject of a revolutionary prophecy. Now, with the help of a beautiful seer, a handful of battle-scarred freedom fighters, and a pack of telepathic hounds capable of killing legions with their minds, Stark must topple the Wandsmen's corrupt regime before they close the world's starport and leave him stranded in a galactic backwater. To do so, he'll have to cross desert wastes where the tribes of the nomadic Hooded Men wage endless war, earn the trust of the winged Fallarin who command the killing winds, and rouse a cowed people to war against their oppressors. But can a motley band of revolutionaries overthrow the government of an entire planet and help its people reach the stars?

Talented enough to co-write The Big Sleep screenplay with William Faulkner and imaginative enough to pen the original screenplay for The Empire Strikes Back, Leigh Brackett is a giant in the science-fiction field, and Eric John Stark is her finest character. An introduction by F. Paul Wilson (Repairman Jack, The Tomb) introduces Stark to new readers and sets the scene for one of the warrior's finest planetary adventures!

"The Skaith novels share [Edgar Rice Burroughs's] muscular protagonists and headlong pace, but Leigh Brackett's style is head and shoulders above."—F. Paul Wilson, bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series