New York: Pocket Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, and the first book in a projected trilogy set in 5th century Britain, in the world of King Arthur, based on both Mallory's La Morte d'Arthur and the author's own research (he is an ethnohistorian and cultural anthropologist). "Pelleas, son of Uther Pendragon, begins his apprenticeship with Myrddin (Merlin), a sorcerer, and explores a land torn by strife, struggling toward glory in the days before the birth of King Arthur." Map. xiv, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-671734032.