The Spoils of War
by Alan Dean Foster
First Edition 1993
Del Rey / Ballantine Books
New York
ISBN 0345358570
Hardback in dust jacket
Cover illustration by Barclay Shaw
282 pages
Price: $19.50
Notes
A The Damned novel.
Third and final part of The Damned trilogy.
The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1994 Del Rey/Ballantine paperback edition, ISBN 0345375769. Cover illustration by Barclay Shaw.
Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
AMONG THE BARBARIANS
After millennia of relentless war, the union of alien races called the Weave was on the verge of winning a decisive victory—thanks to their new allies from Earth, who in a mere handful of centuries had proven masters of combat. But then the birdlike Wais scholar Lalelelang found disturbing evidence that Humans might not adapt so easily to peace—that j natural Human aggression would next be turned against the Weave, unless they were once again confined to fight among themselves.
When her field research revealed the existence of a secret group of powerfully telepathic Humans called the Core, it looked as if Lalelelang would be the first victim in a new war between Humans and their allies. But just as her fate was sealed, a lone Core commander took a chance on her intelligence and compassion, gambling the fate of Humanity on the possibility that together, they could find an alternative to a galaxy-wide bloodbath...
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