<p><b>This is the story of the world after it ended . . . </b><br>Five thousand years after the apocalyptic event known as The Death, Per Hiero Desteen - priest, telepath, assassin - has been working to find ancient information to save his people.<br>The Brotherhood of the Unclean, a roving band of feral raiders, stage an unprecedented attack. They manage to nullify Hiero''s telepathic powers, and leave him vulnerable and alone in the wasteland that once was North America.<br>Now he has to not only survive, but strike back and stop the Brotherhood before they can wipe the vestiges of civilisation from the face of the Earth . . . forever.<br><b>The sequel to the beloved novel <i>Hiero''s Journey</i>, <i>The Unforsaken Hiero</i> takes us back into a world that has been irrevocably changed by the hubris of mankind, and the new races that rose to live in it.</b></p>