THE LIVING SHIELD - The Spiritic Volume III

This newly revised and expanded futuristic tale of the Spiritic is now told in three illustrated volumes.In Volume III - The Living Shield the abducted half Earth-human half Sed-Genal Dr. Rom Quanadeen is as mad as a cut snake. A pacifist on her homeworld Numork she didn't ask for this fight on a war-torn alien planet Jupol but she isn't about to let Esadov a sentient and lethal alien bacterium destroy her species. The 1000-year-old smart bug is working through an infected victim Raak-Kaal a former pacifist turned manic war lord.Can Rom beat it? The deck seems stacked against her when her young Karpinian monk ally Junaid is knifed by a crazed Venger Sedalus in New Banika. Can she save him?Then her Jupolian ally Josi Talim goes missing after arrowing her craft into a suicidal dive over a Voshland canyon to save Rom from Raak-Kaal's Nixer fighters. Esadov learns a galactic time warp between Numork and Jupol means its arch-enemy human Forbear is long dead yet it's pacifying to learn his grandson Kru Sigor is on hand to suffer in his stead. It shucks its Raak-Kaal meat-suit and recruits Cycusian Viking Prytalior to hijack Kru's rescue ship the Ruconicca along with its sonic weaponry. Rom carries a dying Kru into the Voshland's boiling mud geyser that saved her life. She needs him his spirit-guide Forbear together with her spirit-guide Suvana. If they can't destroy Esadov they'll have to outwit it. Aboard Ruconicca Kru's aide Ormat Niosic and the ship's AI Acumen take on Esadov in a mind-crushing showdown. And hope for a miracle...