First in a new trilogy of the albino prince, Elric of Melnibone.
In the 1930s, Count Ulric von Bek has been harried and imprisoned by the Nazis for a black sword which is part of his family's history - and for the Grail, which his cousin Gaynor believes is also in his care. Almost dead, he is rescued from Sachsenhausen concentration camp by two unknown figures - an Englishman called Bastable and an albino girl, Oona. With them, he journeys to a strange, underground world. And there he meets a figure known to him only from dreams, in which they are somehow the same person, yet separate: Elric of Melnibone.
Michael Moorcock returns triumphantly to his best-known character, the albino prince, Elric of Melnibone. In the first of three new tales of the doomed swordsman, he plaits differing realities effortlessly, mixing the eternal city of Tanelorn with the rise of Hitler's Germany and the enigmatic Dreamthief's daughter.
