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曾被選為軟件行業最有影響力的十大傑齣人物，而且被選入計算機名人堂，與Charles Babbage、Seymour Cray、James Martin、Grace Hopper、Bill Gates並列。作為國際知名的谘詢師之一，他撰寫或與他人閤著的著作多達25本，其中包括暢銷書《Byte Wars》、《Managing High Intensity Internet Projects》和《Decline and Fall of the American Programmer》。他與朋友閤作開發齣瞭非常流行的Coad/Yourdon 方法；參與創建瞭影響力巨大的Cutter Consortium Business Technology Council。