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eBook by Brendan Deneen Cover by E. M. Gist  From Titan Books, Heroic Signatures & Conan Properties International LLC Spoilers! Spoilers!  The City of Thieves aka Arenjun, Zamora. Fabian, the leader of the Thieves' Guild gives an eighteen-year-old Conan of Cimmeria a down payment of jewels to meet with the Duchess Amelia (third cousin of King Hadranor of Zamora) and her bodyguard Tomas.  The Duchess wants her stolen family heirloom, the crimson amulet of the demon Nakamar, a gift from the King, back in her possession. Conan is told to go to a walled mansion surrounded by abysses near the Skarpash Mountains. Conan surmounts the estate's stone barricade, enters the residence via a servants' door, makes his way to the basement and finds the amulet. Conan notices that the heirloom is giving off hellish heat, Conan hears the voice of the demon Nakamar asking to be released. Two older thieves, also sent by Amelia to retrieve the amulet, enter the basement, the barbarian bu...

Raad manages to sow some discontent between the Klingons and Romulans.  She challenges the Romulan commander to single combat.  When it appears she has the upper hand Miller takes a disruptor and kills her.  He is actually a Romulan agent.  The Klingons get the data they were promised, but are destroyed by the Romulans.  Miller is eventually rescued by the Enterprise and names Raad as the spy. This final issue stinks.  The single combat sequence is built up only for it to be rendered useless by the reveal of Miller being a spy.  This completely falls flat for me.  It doesn't make me want to go back and reread the previous issues for clues.  It just makes me want to forget about this entire mini series.  The promise of a mini devoted to no-name red shirts getting killed off was interesting, but it was a complete letdown.  And I say that as someone who enjoys horror films, there were one or two interesting kills.  But it all just...