The Dragon Lord

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Berkley Publishing Corporation / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. First Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 6" x 9. 286 pages. Black boards with gold spine lettering. Very slight spine cock. Straight, square and clean book. Light wear on front at bottom and corners. Dusjt Jacket price is clipped and some minimal edge wear and inside age tanning.. Interiior is faultless. Cover art and design by Gianni Benvenuti and Anthony Russo, The Artworks. First Novel for this Author. Arthur warlord of Britain, has forged a mercenary army more savage and terrible than the Saxon barbari ans who have invaded his island. Arthur wants to annihilate the Saxons by becoming The Dragon Lord. Mael and Starkad, an Irish adventurer and his giant Danish companion, are peerless warriors in a warrior age; men who have fought all across Europe for survival and pay - and always for each other. Now they must seek an ancient skull from which Merlin's wizardry can raise a dragon, and also the weapons by which alone the dragon can be controlled. Accompanied by a priestess older than time, their search takes them from a monster-haunted lake, to the barrow of a thing no longer dead, and to a battlefield where the enmity of Briton and Saxon rises to a cataclysm whcih drowns the earth in blood. Yet one task remains. The fiery breath of the dragon Mael and Starkand have helped create can sweep the land clear of all life if it ever escapes from Merlin's control. and the dragon is about to escape!