A brilliant story of adventure, wit, and philosophy from the origins
of the Spellslinger series to enrapture devotees as well as newcomers
alike.
New to the ways of the Argosi, the tribe of wandering philosophers who
seek to defeat evil by wit and guile, Ferius Parfax encounters a hideous
plague--the Red Scream. Highly contagious, caught by the hearing of a
deadly verse, it turns its victims into mindless monsters that destroy
all human life they come into contact with. With the help of a deaf boy
whom she has saved from two horrifying victims of the plague, she sets
out to find the source of the Red Scream and overcome its terrifying
power. Along the way she is joined by another Argosi, Rosie, who
purports to be so much wiser and more adept than Ferius, but who turns
out to have her own dark secrets.