Beyond wizardwall
By: Janet Morris.
Series: Thieves' world
Publisher: Baen Fantasy Books; Distributed by Simon and Schuster
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Sacred Band of Stepsons
Genres: Mythic novel
First sentence: The young officer's face was shiny with sweat, his back against the stall boards.
Description: In Tyse at the foot of Wizardwall, Niko, disillusioned, quits the Sacred Band of Stepsons, then falls into the hands of the Band's enemies and into the middle of a plot to assassinate the Rankan emperor at the Festival of Man.  Stalked by the Nisibisi witch who loves him and secretly protected by the Sacred Band of Stepsons who are trying to extricate him,  Niko faces his greatest peril.  Tempus leads his Sacred Band of Stepsons to a costly victory against the Mygdonian alliance in this third of the three 'Beyond' novels, joined by Tempus's daughter Kama and her unit, the 3rd Commando, consummate shock troops of the Rankan Empire.  A bold and innovative book in the Sacred Band series, full of intrigue, passion and conflict among the Stepsons themselves and between them and their enemies.
Notes: Baen hardcover; Science Fiction Book Club Selection; Ace paperback (1987).

Beyond Wizardwall is the third authorized "Thieves World" novel and fourth in the Sacred Band of Stepsons series.