Book II of The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever. Cursed by a terrible disease, Thomas Covenant is shunned by his neighbours and is an outcast in our world. Suddenly he is transported to a mysterious and beautiful world - the Land - where gentle people work magic and healing with wood and stone. Thomas is welcomed as the reincarnation of a legendary saviour, a possessor of wild magic powerful against evil. But he does not believe the Land is real - and he becomes the unwilling tool of Lord Foul the Despiser, who seeks to destroy the gentle Land. Cover art by Peter Goodfellow.