Blade enters a sinister new dimension--the Land of the Hashomi. Here people are conditioned from birth to be totally immune to pain and fear. By a combination of indoctrination and drugs they have been made into the ultimate fighting machine.The ever-virile and strong Richard Blade--who is drug-free--poses a threat to the Master of Hashomi. A free mind in a strong body cannot be manipulated.Blade joins forces with Baran, the enlightened leader who rules the other half of the dimension. Large supplies of Hashomi drugs are discovered among the Thieves Guild and war has now become inevitable.Can reason and sanity, aided by Richard Blade, battle against the drug-controlled warriors of the Hashomi? Can a civilized society be saved?