Conan the Freebooter
Conan the Freebooter is a 1968 collection of five fantasy short stories by American writers Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine "Weird Tales" in the 1930s. The book has been reprinted a number of times by various publishers, and has also been translated into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, and Japanese. It was later gathered together with "Conan" and "Conan of Cimmeria" into the omnibus collection "The Conan Chronicles" (1989). Plot. In these stories  from Conan's late twenties, the Cimmerian is a mercenary with the Free Company in the city-states of Shem and the lands to the north and east, a war leader of the steppe-raiding Kozaki, and finally a soldier in the service of the kingdom of Khauran. Chronologically, the five short stories collected as "Conan the Freebooter" fall between "Conan of Cimmeria" and "Conan the Wanderer".