Vintage paperback

Vintage paperback

She lived in a savage world in an uncivilized age-a wovid ruled by man and governed by the sword. They called her Red Sonja - for her flame-red hair, for the smouldering fire of her pride which gave her sword arm a strength few men could match and none had ever defeated. In the very land where Conan the Cimmerian wields his powerful blade, this beautiful and deadly warrior-maid battles dark sorceries.. .and her owe dark soul. On the prison Isle of Os Harku, where the sweepings of Aquilonian society are thrown - traitors, murderers, thieves, and those whose crimes are too terrible to name - a dark force lies entrapped that feeds on the evil of the men around it An ancient demon, the life force of one of Hell's own, it snares Athu, a venal Shemite sorcerer, and drives him to attempt escape from the Isle, and to quest for the entrance to Hell. With the aid of a sorcerous storm, the prisoners of Os Haiku take a ship, and make their escape. But on that ship is the flame-haired woman warrior, the only Aquilonian brave enough, or bitter enough, to try to stand between a demon and the gates of Hell.

Unheimliches geht in der Stadt Shadizar Lord Endithor, der Ausübung Schwarzer Magie angeklagt, wird ohne ordentliches Gerichtsverfahren hingerichtet; doch seine Tochter Areel schwört den Blutrichtern grausame Rache. Und dazu ist ihr jegliches Mittel recht – selbst Hexerei. Als Sonja auf der Suche nach einem neuen Herrn die Stadt erreicht, ahnt sie nichts von der Bedrohung durch unheimliche, übersinnliche Kräfte, die sie erwartet. Bald jedoch wird sie in den Strudel teuflischer Ereignisse hineingezogen und muss sich entscheiden, auf wessen Seite sie steht... David C. Smith und Richard L. Tierney erwecken in sechs RED SONJA-Romanen das prähistorische hyborische Zeitalter (das Zeitalter von CONAN, dem Barbaren) sowie die legendäre Figur der Schwertkämpferin Red Sonja zum Leben - farbenprächtig, exotisch und erfüllt von Magie. Der Apex-Verlag veröffentlicht die erstmals von 1981 bis 1983 in den USA (und 1985 schließlich in Deutschland) erschienenen Romane als durchgesehene Neuausgaben.

She lived in a savage world in an uncivilized age, a world ruled by men and governed by the sword. They called her Red Sonja—for her flame-red hair, for the smouldering fire of her pride which gave her sword arm a strength few men could match and none had ever defeated. In the very lands where Conan the Cimmerian roams, this dangerous warrior-maid pits herself against a power-mad wizard who rules a city poised precariously above the door to the Seven Hells...

Sonja helps the villagers end their ten-year siege of the stone zigguarat where the evil sorcerers of the Order of the Crimson Sun are entrenched