The Dragon In The Sword [Paperback]

Michael Moorcock (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1987

John Daker is the Eternal Champion, trapped in a dimensionless plane outside of time, defender and destroyer of justice, a hero whose quest for justice leads only further into darkness. Haunted by the memories of too many battles waged during countless lifetimes, he searches for the beautiful Ermizhad - and for the key that will allow him to step off the wheel of infinite incarnations. His is a voyage on a dark ship piloted by a blind helmsman, through the slave stalls of the Cannibal ghost Women and the tunnels of doom to a monstrous confrontation with the Evil that could plunge the world into the final night of oblivion. The Dragon in the Sword is the epic culmination of the strange and startling adventures of John Daker, the Eternal Champion, from modern fantasy's most inspired practitioner.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ace (December 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441166105
• ISBN-13: 978-0441166107
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,916,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born in London in 1939, Michael Moorcock now lives in Texas. A prolific and award-winning writer with more than eighty works of fiction and non-fiction to his name, he is the creator of Elric, Jerry Cornelius and Colonel Pyat, amongst many other memorable characters.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Eternal Champion Volume, October 13, 2009

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Stephen Dobie (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dragon In The Sword (Paperback)

Continues the story of the story of the aspect of the Eternal Champion known as John Daker/Erekose that started in the books The Eternal Champion and Phoenix in Obsidian. His only desire is to be reunited with his lost love, Ermizhad, but instead he is pulled into the dimension of the Six Realms, where he meets Ulrich Von Bek who has escaped from the Nazis on Earth into this realm. The Six Realms are an area where six different worlds inhabited by very different cultures and races come together through a number of interdimensional gates. Daker soon learns of a plot by the forces of Chaos to conquer all the realms and knows that it is his mission as the Eternal Champion to stop that from happening.

This is one of the better examples of Moorcock's fantasy adventure style. The different realms have creative, if fairly limited, cultures, and the depiction of Hell is interesting. It is nothing groundbreaking, but is a solid conclusion to the Erekose sequence.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Erekose in Waterworld, November 28, 2000

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This review is from: The Dragon In The Sword (Paperback)

My all time favorite book by Michael Moorcock, this installment of the Eternal Champion series features John Daker/Erekose and begins with him being drawn out of his previous existence into another plane where the polar ice caps have melted and the planet is flooded (as in the movie waterworld, but very dark because the sun is also close to it's death). John Daker is thrust into this world with no sword or sheild, but still well aware of the misdeeds he committed in previous existances. The story has a decidedly dark and confused tone as our hero struggles to figure out who summoned him into this existance,and why. As with all Moorcock, the writing is intriguing and only in the final chapter will you tie all of the storie's threads together. If you are a fan of the John Daker saga this book is a must have (it's listed as Being the "Third and Final Story in the History of John Daker, the Eternal Champion"). If when you read this review this book is still unavailable, I urge you to find a used book store.

5.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 29, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dragon in the Sword (Paperback)

John Daker is Erekose is The Eternal Champion, again. After all the heroics and adventuring through countless lifetimes and incarnations he is weary, and just wants to get back to his Eldren princess Ermizhad and lead the quiet life.

Something nags at him, in his mind, a name, another Eternal Champion, but he doesn't know that name. A mystery that will not let him rest and retire fromt he cycle of the Eternal Champion.