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544 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1996
The Family needs Scavenger-Halfbreeds, able to kill once and forever. But as soon as a Scavenger starts thinking about similarities between a Gorgon and Athena, Chimera and Pan, a monster and a god... Oh, the Family doesn't forgive those thoughts!
"You have wiped out our generation," he said quietly. "Few of us are left, on one hand to count... What will you do with our children? Do not answer that, I know it myself. In ten or twenty years you'll gather them all together near some lousy town, at Troy for instance, and then you'll throw a bone, one for all, and we'll spear one another!"