About the Book
Actual title: Gold and Iron.
The sea spreads leaden, listless; they drift over dreary mud-flats. Ahead appears a long black line which, as the barge draws near, breaks
up into clots of men, moving slow as cold ants as they fit great stones
together. They will arrive at any moment...
Barch, an Earther,
and Komeitk Lelianr, the beautiful stranger from a far world, have
together been captured and transported to Magarak by the Klau, great
black creatures whose faces are stiff with black bristles and eyes
gleam like polished jet. Somehow they escape to the wild mountains
where trees clater in the dank wind as it roars through the valley – but
soon they must form a daring plan – for this inhospitable ground is where
the Klau hunt down escaped slaves, for sport...
