The young Arthor is a brutal warrior, a Dark Age killing machine who seeks - and finds - in slaughter his sole satisfaction. Sent by his stepfather, the Celtic chief Kyner, on a mission to return a Saxon hostage to the battle-lord Aelle, Arthor becomes entangled with some dangerous magic too potent for even his lethal combat skills. Reaching the new castle-fortress at Camelot and the astounding destiny that awaits him there becomes a perilous quest indeed...
- ISBN10 0340617764
- ISBN13 9780340617762
- Publish Date 16 November 1995 (first published 15 June 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder Paperback
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 398
- Language English