Conan the Bold

Plot

Young Conan's prospects for a domestic existence are murdered along with his intended by the renegade Taharka of Keshan. To achieve vengeance the Cimmerian pursues his nemesis from Croton's fighting pits to the Ophirian plains, a chase culminating in a battle to the death.

Reception

Don D'Ammassa, writing of Roberts' Conan novels, noted that "[a]lthough Roberts did not recreate Howard's character exactly, making him more intellectual and less inclined to solve every problem by hitting it with a sword, his evocation of the barbaric setting is superior to that of most of the other writers contributing to the series."

Writing of some other Tor Conan novels, reviewer Ryan Harvey called Roberts "the most consistently successful of its stable of authors," and "the most consistently entertaining" of them, showing "deft ability with storytelling and action scenes, and a thankful tendency not to overplay his hand and try to ape Robert E. Howard’s style."