The First book of the Protectors saga of three books/novels shows the path of Bullseye (John Bonan) to become a protector. He companies a team of gifted individuals to explore the outside universes. Does Bullseye recover his identity and meet the woman who has aided him throughout his lonely life or will face the wrath of an unknown enemy lurking around?
After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the lure of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his pilgrimage
