When raiders ransack his desert town, Jamzire embarks on a daring rescue mission to save his enslaved kinsmen. The brash youth and his companions abruptly become entangled in a warlord's dark intrigues. They find themselves consorting with rebels, thieves, and a possible lunatic posing as a prophet in their efforts to thwart the land's depraved ruler and his assassin. Stalked by fiend spawns and haunted by dreams that promise betrayal, Jamzire is...