Ace Double 89301 - The Winds Of Gath & Derai by E.C. Tubb - Dumarest - SF book

ACE DOUBLE 89301
DERAI
and
THE WINDS OF GATH
by
E.C. TUBB

DERAI

The planet was simply put - if Dumarest would enter the contest on Folgone and win a place of eternal glory for the ancient master of Caldor, he would win for himself wealth, power and a lovely wife.

But the truth was less simple.

The wealth was confined to the restricted economy of a feudalistic planet.

The power would be the privilege of walking a tightrope between assassination and warfare.

The lovely heiress was a psychotic telepath.

And, finally, the contest was "fixed".

But did Dumarest really have any other choice?

THE WINDS OF GATH

Gath is a strange world with strange potentialities.

That's why Sime brought his wife there - long dead in her coffin.  That's why the Matriarch of Kund went to pick her successor.  That's why the Prince of Emmened went to win either a world or a moment's special pleasure.

But that was not why Dumarest came.  He was simply stranded there, a traveler in Low passage without the price to get home, without even knowing where "home" was.  All he could tell people was that its name was Earth, a name which meant soil to them.

Someone, however, must have known but was not telling.  That someone was reluctant to let Dumarest live.  But live the Earthman did, through slow-time and quick-time, through phygria assassins and laser attacks - and through the fabled Winds of Gath.

The book is fair to good vintage condition, with mild signs of wear and creasing to the spine.  A hole has been punched at the top right corner of the cover of The Winds of Gath - shops sometimes used to do this when they sold books off as remaindered stock.  The pages are all attached, uncreased and unmarked.  Please judge the condition of the book from the pictures.