Hiero Desteen: Hiero's Journey & The Unforsaken Hero

Two books in one. A tight and unmarked copy- Jacket shows wear with tears-" Hiero's Journey is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Sterling Lanier first published in 1973. The novel follows the adventures of a priest by the name of Per Hiero Desteen, a descendant of the ancient Métis people, as he explores the mutant-infested wilderness of Canada and North America five millennia after an event called The Death destroyed civilization (7476 A.D.). Riding a mutant moose named Klootz, with which he can communicate telepathically, Hiero is on a secret mission to uncover the secret of the computer, pre-death technology that could help coordinate his people's defense against evil forces that are slowly subverting, corrupting and encircling his civilization.-The Unforsaken Hiero-Per Hiero Desteen was alone, weaponless and without food or water, facing the unknown perils of the desert in this grim world, five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death. Sent south to spy on the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean which fought to destroy the emerging civilization of the north, he had been welcomed as the son-in-law of the King of D'alway, welcomed, honored -- and betrayed! Now his wife and all he loved were lost. And the mental powers which had enabled him to defeat every previous trick of the Unclean had been burned from his mind by drugs."