Face,The-Jack Vance novel, book review
Face, The-Jack Vance novel AKA: The Demon Princes Book 4 The Face was first published in 1979 by DAW Books. It is a 194 page novel that is the fourth in the five novel series by Jack Vance called The Demon Princes and was published twelve years after the third novel in the series. It is still in print. Kirth Gersen continues his tracking and killing of the five demon princes who killed his parents and destroyed his colony where he lived when he was a child. Kirth and his grandfather were the only survivors, and his grandfather had Keith trained for many years in hand to hand and weapons combat so that he could avenge the family In this novel Kirth Gersen attempts to track down Lens Larque also known as The Face. Larque is an ugly looking outcast (rachepol) from the Darsh people who had his ear cut off by his clan for committing a "repulsive" crime. He is now an infamous criminal who is noted for his cruel jests often done for revenge or one-upman...