Warstalker's Track

David Sullivan #9

by Tom Deitz

With the High King of Tir-Nan-Og imprisoned and the throne of Faerie under siege, David Sullivan, the human liaison between moral and Faerie, and his companions hold the key to saving thousands of lives, but a very personal tragedy could destroy everything David holds dear. Original.

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction

Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1999

About the author

Thomas Franklin Deitz (January 17, 1952- April 27, 2009) was an American novelist from Georgia. He had a B.A. and M.A. in medieval English from University of Georgia. He was the author of the "Soulsmith Trilogy," comprised of the books Soulsmith , Dreambuilder , and Wordwright . He also wrote a popular series consisting of Windmaster's Bane , Fireshaper's Doom , Darkthunder's Way , Sunshaker's War , Stoneskin's Revenge , Ghostcountry's Wrath , Dreamseeker's Road , Landslayer's Law , and Warstalker's Track . His stand-alone novel The Gryphon King centers around a few of the characters from the later novels in the last series mentioned.

Deitz also won the Phoenix Award in 2007. This award is given at the annual DeepSouthCon to a professional who has done a great deal for Southern Fandom.

Deitz was a well-liked college instructor as well, with stints as an adjunct English faculty member at Gainesville State College, Lanier Tech, and Tri-County Community College, and received a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor in Fall 2008 at Gainesville State College. He was recognized as GSC's adjunct faculty member of the year in 2008.

In addition to writing, Deitz's creative outlets included visual art (murals, fantasy art, and more); drama (with minor roles in a number of community and college productions); model automobile collecting; costumery; and other pursuits via the Society for Creative Anachronism. He was a founding member of the SCA's Barony of Bryn Madoc.

Deitz died on Monday, April 27 2009 of heart failure. He had a heart attack in January of this year and was a candidate to receive a Ventricular assist device (VAD) but had suffered too much damage to his heart for the device to be implanted.
(From Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Todd · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is it. The last volume of the David Sullivan series. Lugh is captured and rebel Fae want to take over the land of Faerie, while flooding our world.
David, Calvin and company must fight off the rebel Fae while trying something drastic to save their own world and Faerie too.
Very enjoyable series set in the mountains of northern Georgia crossing lines between Faerie and the Cherokee dream land of Galenlati.

[Scott · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book makes me sad, not because of the content but because when I started reading this series (9 books ago and about 25 years ago) it was the best thing out there.

Now.
Not so much.

It was probably when David and his crew took their shotguns and handguns into Tir-Nan-Og to shoot up the fairies to save Lugh. Really?

The magic has gone and I will probably never read another Tom Deitz book again.
I used to think of him as the master of modern fantasy and now it was a struggle to not give this book 1 star.

This is a giant, huge, large, wide sweeping pass on this book.
Don't read it.
Not even on a dare.

[Pat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great end to the series. I very much like Tom Deitz's geography of the magical realms and our own.

[James Noyes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well I finally remembered why he hasn't written more in this series. It's because this ends the trilogy of trilogies. This was a great book. It brought together all of his characters and had them end in one fantastic story. I would be curious to see what he would do with them now, taht so much time has passed, but this tory really was great. It concerns politics, sidhe and the humans. Great story telling.

[Cheryl]

Excellent end to the series, going to miss these great stories!