Hardcover, UK First Edition First Printing Signed and dated (1/5/10) by author to title page

In a kingdom of merciless tyrants, Jebel Rum`s family is honoured as royalty because his father is the executioner. But Rashed Rum is near retirement. And when he goes. there will be a contest to determine his successor, It is a contest that thin, Puny Jebel has no chance of winning. Humiliated and ashamed, Jebel sets out on a quest to the faraway home of a legendary fire god to beg for inhuman powers so that he can become the most lethal of men. He must take with him a slave, named Tel Hesani, to be sacrificed to the god. It will be a dark and brutal journey filled with lynch mobs, suicide cults, terrible monsters, and worse monstrous men. But to Jebel the risk is worth it..