"Absolutely worth reading as an example of trashy sword and sorcery that's never dull for a moment and acts like a sleazy D&D game highlight reel. The finale makes the last act of Hamlet look like a Sunday school picnic." - Black Gate "The usual rip-roaring, headlong action, inventiveness, and raw violence which Howard's name on a story guaranteed. And when one of the gang leaders, a stunning woman with a vampiric lust for life, makes Valeria a target of her hunger, Conan and Valeria must escape the evil and madness that flood the city before all is lost. Seemingly deserted, Xuchotl actually harbors two gangs who are locked in an endless ancestral feud. Xuchotl is an ancient city of wealth and beauty, with walls of jade and bejeweled lights. The final sword-and-sorcery installment of the epic Conan the Barbarian Series.ĭuring the mythical Hyborian Age, Conan the Cimmerian and Valeria of the Red Brotherhood are pursued by a dragon-like monster-until they make it to civilization.
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