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    Drafted Into Darkness
    Drafted Into Darkness
    Drafted Into Darkness
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    Drafted Into Darkness

    By Robert A. Van Buskirk

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    What sets a man down the path to becoming an evil warlock? For Igon, it starts with an injustice, and making the acquaintance of a pagan shaman called Zaharo. Set in Moorish occupied medieval Spain, this tale shows revenge need not be a dish served cold. Properly cooked, it might even smell like bacon!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert A. Van Buskirk
    Release dateDec 29, 2014
    ISBN9781310398599
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      Drafted Into Darkness - Robert A. Van Buskirk

      Drafted Into Darkness

      Copyright 2014 Robert A. Van Buskirk

      Published by Robert A. Van Buskirk

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      Drafted Into Darkness

      I’ll die before I let that pig enslave me. I’ll kill Herauts, and if I’m executed for murder, so be it. Yet how was he going to get past the man’s guards?

      Absorbed in his dilemma, Igon paced the narrow streets of Calahorra late into the night. He had no destination in mind, but he couldn’t sleep. The dense fog that threatened to turn to rain should have hissed and sizzled on his brow from the heat of his fear and fury.

      Thoughts in turmoil, Igon passed a chapel honoring the holy martyrs, Emetrius and Celedonius, decapitated by Emperor Maximian in the year 305, only slightly over four hundred years ago. In those days the town enjoyed relative security as a Roman municipality. Nothing like the Moorish occupied Spain of current times.

      Igon checked carefully to make sure

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