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Sorcerer's Son

(The first book in the Book of Elementals series)

Phyllis Eisenstein

THE DEMON KNIGHT

The black knight slammed his shield against the sword in Cray's left hand, and the blade shivered with the strength of the blow. Cray's fingers, unused to curling about a pommel, went numb; he was barely able to hold onto the weapon.

Cray found himself backing off; suddenly his shoulders were against a tree trunk and he could not sidestep fast enough. The black knight came on. Cray raised his sword far to his right and then swept leftward with a blow too weak to dent plate armor, but strong enough and high enough to cleave a human skull. The steel bit deep into the black knight's head.

In the instant that Cray expected to see bright blood gush from the sundered pate, the black knight burst into flame.

Cray screamed once and his sword arm fell to his side.

Fire engulfed him…

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A Del Rey Book

Published by Ballantine Books



Copyright © 1979 by Phyllis Eisenstein



All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Ballantine Books of Canada, Ltd., Toronto, Canada.



Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 78-71231



ISBN 0-345-27642-6



Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: April 1979

Cover art by Darrell Sweet