The Walker in the Valley of the ShadowH was the name he was known by. H was unique in the galaxy, for he had the healing touch. Where there was plague, sickness, pain, H was the universal cure.But H also had the slaying touch. Where he went death and disaster often followed. Where there had been health there would be left desolation and desert.The talent alternated. It reversed itself -- and H always warned people of this. To live in Italbar or TO DIE IN ITALBAR, that was always the question."Zelazny has regained his stride as a first rate writer of SF adventure." -- Locus