Jove, New York, 1990, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-515-10240-7.  MMPB, 170 pages.  Very good; light edge and cover wear with tiny corner creases, light reading creases on spine; binding sound with a slight lean.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; light spotting on outer page block and faded stamped number on bottom edge.  ‘A slave of the savage Tatars, Casca is a champion in the blood-sports that make his masters rich … a rare prize for those who wager on his skills … and a nightmare for those who face him in a fight where only one survives.  Then Casca is stolen by a Mongol rebel – a young outcast among his own people.  Only blood and power can quench the burning thirst of his ambition.  With Casca at his side, he unites a people and cuts a bloody swath across Asia into Europe.  Nations fall beneath an army horde that knows no mercy.  And an empire rises from the slaughter.’ (from rear wrap)