STEN

THE WOLF WORLDS

THE COURT OF A THOUSAND SUNS

FLEET OF THE DAMNED

REVENGE OF THE DAMNED

THE RETURN OF THE EMPEROR

VORTEX

EMPIRE’S END

A RECKONING FOR KINGS

EMPIRE’S END

Allan Cole and Chris Bunch

DEL REY

A Del Rey Book BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK

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A Del Key Book

Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright © 1993 by Allan Cole and Christopher Bunch

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-97052 ISBN 0-345-376%-X

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: March 1993

To Everyone Who Was There

When ‘Death came quietly to The Row’