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William Morrow
September 2006
On Sale: August 29, 2006
496 pages
ISBN: 0060892447
EAN: 9780060892449
Hardcover
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Historical | Fantasy
The leader of a band of marauding barbarians, Thutmose-sin
is a warrior gifted by the gods with extraordinary
perception and cunning. To survive, he and his people
plunder and pillage, killing and enslaving the dirt-eaters
who dwell in villages across the plains. But Thutmose-sin
also secretly fears these enemies, for they possess a
weapon far deadlier than any bow or lance: the food they
coax from the ground that allows them to multiply. Someday,
he worries, there might be so many of them that even his
warriors will not be able to kill them all. And in a
prosperous settlement near the headwaters of the Tigris,
his suspicions are about to come true . . . Determined to preserve their way of life, the peaceful
people of Orak refuse to flee the oncoming barbarians.
Instead, they devise a bold, untested plan of defense:
build a wall around the village high and strong enough to
repel the invaders. Under the guidance of an outcast
barbarian named Eskkar and his true love, an enchanting and
wise slave girl named Trella, the villagers begin the
wall's construction and await the epic battle that will pit
them against the unstoppable barbarians - a battle whose
outcome will change the world forever.
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