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Killer

IT WAS IN A CAGE THE
FIRST TIME HE SAW IT

Lycon was the greatest of the beast hunters who fed the bloody maw of Rome's Coliseum. He had trapped tigers in India—lions in the hills of Macedon—elephants where the Mediterranean surges against the foot of the Atlas Mountains.
How was he to know that the beast he hunted this time came from a star whose light had not yet reached Earth?
The beast's ferocity had been obvious from the first. But when it escaped and Lycon followed its track of slaughter from the grimiest tenements of Rome to the heights of Imperial splendor, he realized two things more: the creature wanted his life as badly as he wanted its; and the creature was just as intelligent as he was. Only one of them would survive—and the fate of Earth itself depended on the winner of their savage duel.
"[Drake's novels have] superb action scenes and ingenious weapons and menaces...."
—Booklist
"Drake is one of the most gifted users of historical and military raw materials at work today" —Chicago Sun-Times
"Wagner is one of the best"
—A Reader's Guide to Fantasy

Cover art by Patrick Turner


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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, December 2002
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020 Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 0-7434-3586-9

Copyright 2002 by David Drake & Karl Edward Wagner
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
http://www.baen.com
Typesetting by Brilliant Press
Electronic version by WebWrights
http://www.webwrights.com

Dedication

To Gary Hoppenstand and Michel Parry—

And super heroes come to feast
To taste the flesh not yet deceased
And all I know
Is still the beast is feeding—

Richard O'Brien
The Rocky Horror Show

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Killer

IT WAS IN A CAGE THE
FIRST TIME HE SAW IT

Lycon was the greatest of the beast hunters who fed the bloody maw of Rome's Coliseum. He had trapped tigers in India—lions in the hills of Macedon—elephants where the Mediterranean surges against the foot of the Atlas Mountains.
How was he to know that the beast he hunted this time came from a star whose light had not yet reached Earth?
The beast's ferocity had been obvious from the first. But when it escaped and Lycon followed its track of slaughter from the grimiest tenements of Rome to the heights of Imperial splendor, he realized two things more: the creature wanted his life as badly as he wanted its; and the creature was just as intelligent as he was. Only one of them would survive—and the fate of Earth itself depended on the winner of their savage duel.
"[Drake's novels have] superb action scenes and ingenious weapons and menaces...."
—Booklist
"Drake is one of the most gifted users of historical and military raw materials at work today" —Chicago Sun-Times
"Wagner is one of the best"
—A Reader's Guide to Fantasy

Cover art by Patrick Turner


ORDER Paperback
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, December 2002
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020 Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 0-7434-3586-9

Copyright 2002 by David Drake & Karl Edward Wagner
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
http://www.baen.com
Typesetting by Brilliant Press
Electronic version by WebWrights
http://www.webwrights.com

Dedication

To Gary Hoppenstand and Michel Parry—

And super heroes come to feast
To taste the flesh not yet deceased
And all I know
Is still the beast is feeding—

Richard O'Brien
The Rocky Horror Show

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