Spanish Bit #05 - Man of the Shadows by Coldsmith, Don - 1988

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books, 1988. Third Printing . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 197 pages. March 1988 Edition. Slight spine cock and reading crease. Front cover has some corner creases and edge wear. Set in the New World of the early 16th century, Coldsmith's acclaimed novels recreate a time, a place and a people that have been nearly lost to history. In The Spanish Bit Saga we see history in the making through the eyes of those proud Native Americans who lived it. Eagle's father, Heads Off, leads the Elk-dog band by virute of bringing the horse, the elk-dog, tothe People. Eagle himself has mastered the ways of the horse, but now the warrior son must learn survival. His frightened, untrained mount, in panic in the hunt, has carried him far from his band, leaped from a cliff, and smashed the hapless Eagle on the rocks below. He faces a winter alone, without weapons or friends, and with a broken, useless leg. But then a strange old man gives him shelter. Is he a demented outcast of the People? Or the legendary Trickster, the mischievous Man of the Shadows? Whoever he is, he alone will determine Eagle's fate. Introducdtion by Roberet J. Conley..