Latro forgets everything when be sleeps.
Writing doom his experiences every day and reading his journal anew each morning gives him a poignantly tenuous hold on himself, but his story's hold on readers is powerful indeed. The two previous novels, combined in Latro in the Mist (Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete), are generally considered classics of contemporary fantasy. At last we have a new book.
Latro now finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities, of mysterious …