Hasan

The carcass shook and the upper wall depressed against him heavily. The bird was on top of it, crushing him! A giant thorn, a hooked spear poked through the wall inches from his face. It was a talon of horrifying size. Six inches long, an inch thick at the base..and what he saw was only the tip of it. The monstrous beat of wind began again, a hurricane of air smashing the ground. Dust swirled into his breathing-hole. The roc was taking off!

A fantastic Arabian Nights adventure by the author of the Xanth Series, illustrated with a glorious wraparound cover and five full-page drawings by George Barr.