The Faceless Man

Serial publication in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1971. First book edition 1973 as The Anome. Cover: Ned Dameron. Underwood-Miller, 1983.

Durdane the Imprisoned

A world of strange ways and stranger people. A land where men and women are marked for life. Where they are bound to irrevocable destinies by the proclamations of the Faceless Man – an unseen power which terrorises and controles the world.

Durdane is a place where defiance is punished with death. But this kingdom of myriad mystery and incalculable peril is now threathened by a menace from without – the dreaded Rogushkoi. And only one youth, Gastel Etzwane, dares to challenge the unchallengeable, the power of the Faceless Man, in an extraordinary struggle for mastery and for the survival of Durdane...