To recover a priceless artifact with a history that changes at every telling, Conan fares to Sicas, in Aquilonia, a city where anything can be had for a price or a bribe, from the King's Reeve to a murder. Yet others would seize the object if they could, paying gold -- or a knife in the back. In Sicas, a man alone is marked as prey, and sorcery stalks the night, but the hunters do not know that they hunt the most dangerous quarry of all ... Conan the Rogue.