Carnivores of Light and Darkness

Author of the multimillion-copy bestselling Spellsinger series, Alan Dean Foster now creates a triumph of boundless wonder and unending imagination. The three-volume Journeys of the Catechist is the quest of a hero who questions every person and animal he meets, in a world where the impossible is normal and virtue is the greatest weapon a champion can possess.THROUGH THE UNSTABLE LANDSEtjole Ehomba is a herdsman whose simple sense of honor demands that he fulfill the dying wish of a shipwrecked stranger. Even though his promise means that Ehomba -- armed only with a bone knife and a sky-metal sword -- must walk the length of a world, cross lands of unceasing peril, sail an impassable ocean, vanquish an unstoppable evil, and rescue a woman he has never met for the sake of a dead man he did not know.No wizard or warrior would attempt such a mad quest. But a man who poses questions to everything he meets may find answers that no wizard could imagine...