Mortaumal Mort-au-mal...Death to evil.] One would expect a young man whose single mother skipped town a couple of hours after his birth, to have a few problems, but Mortaumal Mort] doesn't seem to, thanks to his grandfather. However, when that support is gone and foster parents fail, and there are nasty people demanding he do evil deeds...things begin to look pretty desperate. From the age of ten to eighteen Mort lives with and meets an extraordinary variety of people, gets himself into and out of very hot water, sees rather too many people die, learns to defend himself both physically and...

In a chilling peek into the near future, Sebastian and Jarek, now in their eighties, confront a particularly vile religious autocrat, whose reign of terror has led to the destruction of everything decent people hold dear. Fortunately, the secret weapon on which the two men have been working most of their lives is ready to be unleashed. A thousand year leap takes the reader to a future city state in which the human aptitude for duplicitous and unjust social schemes has reached its logical culmination in Oasis, a flesh-crawlingly evil dystopia ruled by the most unpleasant gang of conmen and...