Earl Dumarest. Space-wanderer, gladiator-for-hire, seeker for Man’s forgotten home.
Dumarest’s epic quest begins in the ghost-world of Gath, where he becomes unwilling champion of the Matriarch of Kund, and must undergo a fight-to-the-death at stormtime.
Victory could give Dumarest his first clue to the whereabouts of the planet he fled from as a child—an obscure world scarred by ancient wars which lies countless light years from the thickly populated centre of the galaxy; a world no-one else in the inhabited universe believes exists:
Earth, birthplace of Man.