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Rampaging through the lands of King Arthur, Cormac Mac Art, a Irish descendant of Kull and Conan, is accompanied by Wulfhere the Skull-Splitter in a fight against the men, monarchs, and monsters of a dark age.

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Linda Howard is an award-winning author whose New York Times bestsellers include Open Season, All the Queen¹s Men, Mr. Perfect, Kill and Tell, and Son of the Morning. She lives in Alabama with her husband and two golden retrievers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Viking action!, Jun 17 2007

By	A. Volk - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Cormac is one of my favourite REH characters because it's almost all sword and no sorcery. This is brutal, Dark Ages fantasy writing at its best! Grim and barbaric, bleak and violent, risk and daring, is what Cormac is all about! To survive one dangerous, bloody encounter by the skin of his teeth before moving on to the next one...great stuff!

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Howard is good, the Drake is NOT, Oct 10 2003

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Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Drake. Later on in his career, he wrote some good fantasy. Truth is though, "The Land Towards Sunset" by Drake at the beginning of this collection, is TERRIBLE. The tales later in the book such as "Tigers of The Sea", are true Howard stories and though not all finished, will be very interesting to his fans. However, before you buy this just make sure you understand that a full THIRD of this book is not by Robert E. Howard, and little of what he did write is finished. If you're not a big follower of Howard or pulp fiction, you may be disapointed.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The weakest of the series., Sep 1 2003

By	Vagabond77 (Tennessee, USA) - See all my reviews

This book is the least of Bean's Robert E. Howard series. It is pointed out in the introduction that none of these stories were actually wrote by Howard, they were abandoned and finished by someone else. The hero of these short stories is Cormac Mac Art, an Irish prince (descended for Conan, of course) turned pirate. He's a barbarian who lives by his own by his own vauge but unshakable code of honor. The best story, the most Howard of them all, is "The Land Toward Sunset", about an island full of vampires. It was completely made up and wrote by David Drake. "Temple of the Abomination" is also good, it gives the series a sense of time and place, with mentions of early Christian missionaries and King Aurthor. This isn't the best, but far from being bad. There are all first-rate adventures on the Eighth Century English coast. But the greatness really starts with Kull, the next volume.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Beware the Drake!
I've read a lot of Robert E. Howard (the entire Conan series and some of the BAEN series) and Cormac Mac Art, an Irish pirate, is probably one of his best characters, although... Read more

Published on Aug 28 2003 by Malcolm Robinson

5.0 out of 5 stars true Art
howard is forever the mater of describing battles. and in this book it's battles, battles, battles. filled with action. man slashes man. great descriptions. Read more

Published on April 9 2003 by jan erik storeb�

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tales
Saucy, violent and unrelenting, super great fics from REH. Tigers of the Sea nd other great works of the master abound here. Buy it. Luv it

Published on Mar 20 2003 by S. L. Shrewsbury

5.0 out of 5 stars Robert Ervin Howard
This man's work has influenced me in all aspects of my life. I own all the books in this Baen series, and, (although they are extremely hard to locate nowadays) I have succesfully... Read more

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