A vital message. A desperate queen. A hero in the making.
He is plainly too young and too inexperienced for the mission, but on
the advice of her aged adviser Natoum, and with her husband off at war,
the Queen reluctantly assigns the task of delivery to...
Madrenga.
Accompanied only by a runt of a pony and a scrap of a pup, he sets off
to transport the royal message to its destination. No matter what it
might take.
But things are not always what they seem. Heroes are sometimes made of
the strangest stuff, and love is to be found in the most unexpected
places.
If one doesn't die while treading the lethal path...
"Rip-roaring action sequences and the mystery of Madrenga's curious
powers propel the story through a series of consistently surprising
twists and turns." --Publishers Weekly
"Foster's brisk and eventful novel should please any reader looking for
a quick and diverting adventure." --Booklist
"Alan Dean Foster is the modern day Renaissance writer, as his abilities
seem to have no genre boundaries." --Bookbrowser
"One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of
science-fiction and fantasy." --The Times (London)