Robert Ervin Howard

Blood of the Gods Robert Ervin Howard

A group of soldiers of fortune seek a set of matched rubies called the Blood of the Gods, owned by al Wazir. To find it, they capture an Arab who they believe knows the location of al Wazir, who has become a desert hermit. After the Arab agrees to help them, despite his fear of el Borak, a friend of al Wazir who leads the caravan to al Wazir's hermitage and reveals al Wazir's location at the Caves of El Khour, the Arab is shot by one of el Borak's other allies, Salim. Salim, wounded during the confrontation with the soldiers of fortune, alerts el Borak-Francis Xavier Gordon, an American adventrurer-to the threat to al Wazir.