The Havilfar Cycle

Dray Prescot, Earthman on the planet Kregen...was he to remain a prince of proud Vallia or just one more human victime of the hunters and manhounds of the mysterious Southern Continent?

For that was the egnimatic fate that the Star Lords had suddenly confronted him with. They wanted someone freed from the terrified pack of human prey among which Prescot found himself. But who it was and how it was done, they left to him.

In unknown Havilfar, there were other mysteries to be solved and other discoveries to be made - and Prescot know there could be no return to his princess and his newly won homeland until he had done the bidding of his all-powerful tormenters.

Never a man to leave something half done, even when the powerful Star Lords commanded otherwise, ...Prescott knew his task on the mysterious continent of Havilfar was far from completed.

There were cruel conquerors to be overthrown, there was a pursuit of the manhounds and their masters, and there was Delia, his princess.

Delia was coming - with an airfleet from Vallia - but before he could hope to help, there was to be the arena. Could he survive the life of a gladiator against the killers and monsters of a spoiled queen - while the Star Lords waited for his mission to be resumed?

Dray Prescot ... confronted his most baffling task while a hunted and harried wanderer on the continent of Havilfar.

That task was to discover the means by which the aircraft of that continent's most advanced civilization operated.

Prescot was no scientist, for he was a fighting man from the days before the Twentieth Century. But fulfill his task, he must - or he would never return to the princess and homeland he had won.

For Prescot therefore there was but one course - with a whole continent against him, with time itself conspiring to balk him, the secrets of an unknown science must be made his!

The problem with being a spy is that you had to make friends with the enemy to learn anything. And Dray Prescot, ...prince of Vallia, was the kind of man who always stood by his friends. So in his quest to learn the war secrets of Hamal, empire of the aircraft-makers, Dray found himself not only becoming blade-comrade to some of its greatest warriors but of championing the very life of its cruelly beautiful queen.

And though Dray's devotion to his glorious Vallian princess never flagged, his mission - and his life - was perilously balanced upon the razor-edged blades of loyalty versus duty.

For a brief but wonderful moment it seemed as if Dray Prescot was on the road to victory - for he was aboard a Vallian ship bound for home with the secret of Vallia's enemies in his possession. But Dray... had not fulfilled the mission of the unseen Star Lords - and until he did, there could be no escape from peril!

And peril came - in the form of hideous sea raiders, in the sharp edges of the dueling blades of a swordsman enemy, and in the horrid rites of the underground cult of the Silver Leem.

Kregen...has been the scene of many an exciting event as its myriad human and non-human races struggle between each other for ascendancy. But for Dray Prescot, Earthman and Prince of Vallia, all of the electrifying aspects of his adventurous life on Kregen were to climax when the armies of Havilfar made their move toward his adopted homeland before he had fully solved the secret of their mysterious air fleets.