Benoni Rider set out across the unexplored desert of a future America to prove himslef a man and to find a new land for his people. The task at first seemed merely exceedingly hard -- and then it began to seem entirely impossible. Because all he had to do was join a barbaric army, become a bodyguard to a queen, act as another nation's emissary to his own, lead an army into battle against the wild men of the north, and manage somehow to get back to Fiiniks wiht the secret.

1962.