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First Edition 1986 Donald I. Fine New York ISBN 0917657926 Hardback in dust jacket Cover illustration by Loretta Trezzo 400 pages Price: $18.95 Notes The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1988 Orbit/Futura paperback edition, ISBN 0708882757. Cover illustration by Fred Gambino.
Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
The tenuous galactic empire humanity has cast across the skies depends for its very existence on hyperspace and the pilots who can ride its bizarre force-fields. And these pilots are gypsies. The Romany have come into their own. But there is a price: the legendary Romany Star. All the leverage the gypsies can bring to bear is used in the search for their ancestral home. Intergalactic blackmail? Of course. But also a statement of intent, romantic but implacable.
Who better to orchestrate a scam so colossal than Yakoub, once and future King of Gypsies? Sulking in luxurious exile, he has been planning his return to power and reminiscing over his extraordinary life. But when the moment of truth arrives; nothing seems to go according to (Yakoub's) plan. All his ingenuity, every sacrifice (even his pride) may not be enough . . . |
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