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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Lincoln Blackthorne lives a quiet life in a quiet town - he's a tailor in Inverness, New Jersey, a place where nothing happens. Until it does.

There's a secret door out of Line's shop. It leads to a tunnel that leads to the cemetery and that always leads to adventure. Because for people who know the truth, Blackthorne is a treasure hunter and international soldier of fortune. Now, he's hunting for something worth more than a fortune: A talisman of reputedly arcane power - a playing card called

THE KING OF SATAN'S EYES

The search takes Linc around the world and to a place he would just as soon avoid: The place where his own deepest fears and nightmares lie in wait. The King of Satan's Eyes may be a playing card, but events prove that Lincoln Blackthorne is not involved in a game. The search is serious.

Deadly serious!

A PIECE OF TAIL

That's what Farren Upshire wants... well, actually, he wants the whole tail, taken from a legendary Arabian stallion called Knight.

The tail is a talisman with magic powers, among them some curative ones, and Upshire has some problems that need curing... an overabundance of pounds, among them.

When people need something, Inverness, New Jersey tailor Lincoln Blackthorne is the man they turn to and in turn Line generally gets them what they want. Sometimes-like every time he turns around - there's somebody else there trying to do Blackthorne out of what he's after... usually threatening bodily harm and more often than not attempting to make good on the threat.

From a very unreserved New Mexico Indian reservation to the frozen Yukon wastes where things heat up,

THE TAIL OF THE ARABIAN, KNIGHT

is an adventure that will keep you going and on the edge of your seat for far more than a thousand and one nights.

"HELLO, LINCOLN," SHE SAID, AND THREW THE KNIFE AT HIM...

Blackthorne was on vacation when they found him, and finding him in the wilds of Maine had taken work. Whatever they wanted from him must be important. And when people wanted important things from Lincoln Blackthorne you could be certain that danger would be part of the package. The other part of this package was an ancient wooden statuette, a figure of a Viking. The people who wanted it thought it had miraculous powers, powers strong enough to kill for. Linc didn't know about the miracles; all he could count on was that he would be the person others would want to kill.

Blackthorne didn't want to get involved... but they were trying to kill him already. Oh, well....

THEY'D DONE IT AGAIN!

As Lincoln Blackthorne looked at the knife that had just missed his head, he began to wonder how people always seemed to know where he was going to be before he even thought of going there. But he couldn't spend too much time worrying about that right now...

Blackthorne was looking for a set of fangs carved out of ruby and connected with an ivory bridge. A lovely, if strange, artifact. Legend had it that the fangs had once belonged to a Rumanian named Viad Tepes, otherwise known as Dracula. Linc couldn't care less about legends and vampires, though. All he wanted to do was find the fangs--before some of his friends wound up dead.

Or before the next knife didn't miss...