Roger Zelazny, Jack of Shadows

This is a book about a world divided; Light and Dark; Technology and Magic; people with Souls and people without.

This is a book about perceptions divided, loyalties divided, life divided.

This is the book about Jack, known as Jack of Shadows, a creature of Light and Darkness alike, with power over shadows wherever they are, his struggle to return from the Dung Pits of Glyve where he was sent through the workings of The Lord of Bats and the headman's axe and his search for vengeance over the one who got him killed and stole his one true love.

This book tells a good story, with the rich background only hinted at that is so typical of Zelazny and with depths to allows enjoyable reading and new insights at the 3rd and 4th reading as well.