The long-dead sorcerer razaak has been re-awoken and is poised to fulfil his dreams of death and tyranny...The Forces of Chaos are at large across Allansia and it seems that they are all pitted against You! It is up to you to battle against the odds - to find the only weapon to which Razaak is vulnerable, to arm yourself with protections against his awesome powers, and to face him in his lair, the Crypt of the Necromancer!
Best-selling and award-winning author and journalist Steve Jackson lives and works in the mountains of Colorado with his wife, and their three children. Born in Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1955, he grew up in Hawaii and Colorado. He graduated in 1979 from Colorado State University with a BA in Journalism.
A newspaper journalist for 25 years, he worked in locales as varied as Montana, Hawaii, Guam, Micronesia, Indonesia, Indiana, Washington D.C., Florida, Oregon and Colorado. During his career with newspapers, he received numerous national and regional awards for feature writing and investigative reporting.
His first non-fiction book, Monster, was published in October 1998, and he has been writing full-time since 2001. His latest non-fiction book, Not Lost Forever, was published Oct. 6, 2009. In 2003, his World War II dramatic narrative, Lucky Lady, received The Colorado Book Award, best biography/history, from the Colorado Center for the Book; Lucky Lady was also the runner-up that year for the Admiral Samuel Morrison Naval History Award.
Several of his books, beginning with Monster, have been listed on the New York Times Bestsellers list. He also ghost writes a popular "crime thriller" fiction series. "But if I told you the name, I'd have to kill you," he says.
Outside of writing, his interests include backpacking, fly fishing, skiing, guitar, reading, softball, music, wine, beer and spending time with his family and friends.
