Killer
IT
WAS IN A CAGE THE
FIRST TIME HE SAW IT
Lycon was the greatest of the beast hunters who fed the bloody maw of
Rome's Coliseum. He had trapped tigers in Indialions in the hills of
Macedonelephants where the Mediterranean surges against the foot of the
Atlas Mountains.
How was he to know that the beast he hunted this time came from a star
whose light had not yet reached Earth?
The beast's ferocity had been obvious from the first. But when it
escaped and Lycon followed its track of slaughter from the grimiest
tenements of Rome to the heights of Imperial splendor, he realized two
things more: the creature wanted his life as badly as he wanted its; and
the creature was just as intelligent as he was. Only one of them would
surviveand the fate of Earth itself depended on the winner of their
savage duel.
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Cover art by Patrick Turner
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and
events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real
people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, December 2002
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ISBN: 0-7434-3586-9
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