The Winds Of Limbo: Michael Moorcock

Book II of The Roads Between Worlds. The Fireclown, a painted demon, a fat messiah, ever-masked, leading hysterical subterranean riots, inciting the people to tear down and revolt. For his own deadly power? Or for galactic salvation? A grotesque political charlatan - or the only voice of sanity left on Earth? No-one knew but everyone was frightened and there were those who were prepared to exploit that fear. Earth, with its savage class structure, was dying. Complacently rushing toward a holocaust, corrupt and weakened by an impotent administration, Earth trembled before the threat of solar war. Only Alan Powys and Helen Curtis saw sense in the Fireclown's vision. But by then, he had vanished - and the greatest space chase in history was on. Cover art by Bob Haberfield.