Excerpts from the Book 'The Return Of Tharn':

... many hours after nightfall, when the air was cooler, in pursuit of his quarry. Rising to his feet on a softly swaying branch a full hundred feet ...
... while Trakor did not speak. Then: Are these men you call Ammadians not so large as the people of our tribes. Do they cover their bodies with a strange ...
... the animal heat from their bodies. Past a stack of spears piled against a side wall, avoiding a block of stone on which were piled several baked clay ...
... that there were many of them, she became aware of their growing size. The cave girl waited no longer. Pushing past the fear-ridden princess, she ...
... his despairing scream rising thinly on the night air. Tharn had not waited to learn the outcome of his ruse. While the remaining warrior was attempting ...
... out and onto them without the additional safety of a steadying hand hold. Fifteen minutes of this was enough to satisfy him he was beyond any territory ...
... had black hair the other's hair was the color of Dyta, the sun, as he seeks his lair for the night. Both were very beautiful, although the ...
... to those questions, Curzad. He'll use great care at first but when each effort meets a blank wall he'll become increasingly desperate. Desperate ...
... to pass no opportunity to keep them apart. True, Ekbar was leading the expedition and therefore was unable to take advantage of Otar's absence from ...
... mad flight endured or how far it took her Dylara was never to know. But at last overtaxed muscles rebelled, her laboring lungs refused their task, and ...
... twelve heavy warspears tore into his exposed flank. The combined impact of those dozen flint heads knocked him to the ground. Fountains of blood ...
... move toward escape would bring them upon us.. Trakor's eyes roved about the hut's sides. He could see no signs of gleaming eyes peering in on them, ...
... the city's strong walls between him and the hated jungle. Trakor was beginning to worry. Crossing that vast plain during the heat of day was bound ...
... at open ground. Beyond a mile of open ground, flooded by Uda's silver rays, stood the towering stone walls of Ammad. To the dazed, unbelieving ...
... along the paved thoroughfares. On these latter occasions Tharn was careful to cross the street to avoid contact, for drunken men were notoriously unpredictable. At ...
... Then: Urim's mistake was to coddle that rascally high priest. In Ammad the priesthood is no problem at all we keep them few in numbers and with no ...
... for a minute or two, to drink in the beauty of the scene and to get some idea of just where within Ammad they were. But should some sleepless Ammadian ...
... a moment later with a flint knife in a sheath at his belt and there was the light of battle in his eyes. Return to your room, Alurna, he said ...
... of war, it was decided that Tharn and Trakor would attempt to creep up on the two guards on duty just within the entrance to the arms-room and overpower ...
... within Ammad as the mate of Jotan, nobleman of Ammad. Beside Jotan, no less lovely in a completely different physical appearance, was Alurna of Sephar, ...