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King’s Ransom – Three Stories by Robert Carse
Haiti, the Caribbean, slave revolts, rum and voodoo; these are the elements that Robert Carse weaves his stories around in King’s Ransom.

Eric John Stark was born on Mercury to miners who died in a cave-in. He was brought up by Mercurian aborigines and given the name N’Chaka, meaning “the man without a tribe”. Stark grew up to become a wanderer, a warrior, a rebel, and ultimately a legend.

Lost City of Desert Death – Out of the trackless Mexican desert rose the Fuente Grande temple of Aztec doom, built on the side of a mountain of gold. To this last lost stronghold of a vanished race, Arch Courier led his tenderfoot caravan- to learn why no white man, or woman, had ever left Fuente Grande alive!