Raptor, Jennings, Gary. Published by Doubleday, New York, 1992. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 980pp. Quarter black cloth over ivory boards, gilt spine titles, black endpapers. Boards very lightly splayed and otherwise volume is in fine condition, in fine unclipped jacket.
Thorn is an Ostrogoth wanderer with two separate identities, the male Thorn and the female Veleda. He serves King Theodoric the Great in the creation of an Ostrogoth empire. Thorn and Veleda’s travails happen amidst real-life events: the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the civil war for the kingship of the Ostrogoths, the clash of Arianism versus Catholicism, and the plunging of Europe into the Dark Ages. “A meticulously researched historical epic.”
