"Early in his life, Conan left his northern homeland to cut a bloody swath across the legendary Hyborian Age. A mercenary, a soldier, a thief, and a pirate, he faced conquering armies, malicious sorcerers, and monstrous creatures, against which he wielded only the sword held in his powerful grasp, fighting alongside fellow soldiers of fortune. In a Sukhmet tavern he encounters Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, a veteran of freebooters launching raids out of the Barachan Isles. When she runs afoul of an exiled Stygian noble, things take a deadly turn." -- Adapted from jacket.