Jean Rabe's long-anticipated return to Krynn continues!

Escaping from the slave pens of a Dark Knight mining camp was no easy feat, but what awaits Direfang, a former hobgoblin slave who has become the reluctant general of a growing goblin army is every bit as perilous. From the cruel ogre mountains to the shores of Newsea, Direfang, Mudwort the shaman, and the Dark Knight wizard Grallik fight the natural and unnatural forces that seek to destroy them. Direfang is tested to his limits by once-friends and powerful foes as he undertakes a death march to the Qualinesti Forest. His eyes on independence, Direfang refuses to surrender, and pledges his life for a chance to be free, even as he learns that freedom is a deadly prize.

Edward Yourdon曾被选为软件行业最有影响力的十大杰出人物，而且被选入计算机名人堂，与Charles Babbage、Seymour Cray、James Martin、Grace Hopper、Bill Gates并列。作为国际知名的咨询师之一，他撰写或与他人合著的著作多达25本，其中包括畅销书《Byte Wars》、《Managing High Intensity Internet Projects》和《Decline and Fall of the American Programmer》。他与朋友合作开发出了非常流行的Coad/Yourdon 方法；参与创建了影响力巨大的Cutter Consortium Business Technology Council。