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Seasoned action-fantasy veteran Asprin and relative newcomer Del Carlo launch a promising new series. The realms of the North and the South are divided by the Isthmus, and Matokin, the sorcerer-emperor of the North, has sent an army to conquer the land-bridge. Said army is ostensibly led by Lord Weisel, but Weisel is actually the host of the spirit of the long-dead military genius, Dardas. Weisel is none too happy about his situation, and neither are a lot of other people, starting, after he loses his entire family, with the playwright Bryck. In the course of this book, Bryck becomes a formidable resistance fighter, and Raven, Matokin's bastard daughter, changes from a homely apprentice mage into a military intelligence operative specializing in sorcery. Thanks to a well-built world and deft handling of warfare, weapons, and intrigues, Asprin and Del Carlo should harvest quite a swath of impressed fantasy readers. Roland Green
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The legendary warlord, Dardas, died more than two hundred and fifty years ago. Now, his spirit lives on in a host body, resurrected by a magician to lead a conquering army across the city-states of Isthmus.

But there are military scholars familiar with Dardas's tactics--scholars who may hold the key to stopping his army.