Orion Children’s Books, London, 2009, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 978-1-84255-116-5.  Trade soft cover, 249 pages.  Very good plus; just a touch of spine end wear, small nick at front spine edge; price sticker on rear wrap; appears unread; binding sound with pages tanning.  ‘Torak circled the fire and Thiazzi came after him: slowly, cracking his whip, playing with his prey as a lynx plays with a lemming.  Torak was exhausted.  He wasn’t going to last much longer.  When he was an outcast, Torak was the hunted one.  Nine moons later he becomes the hunter, when he vows to avenge the killing of one of his closest friends.  Racked by guilt and grief, he follows the killer into the Deep Forest, where the World Spirit stalks the hidden valleys as a tall man with the antlers of a stag.  But there is a rottenness at the heart of the Forest, for its clans have succumbed to the lies of the Soul-Eaters.  Here Torak must face fire, war and overwhelming evil.’ (from rear wrap)