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Chronicling the adventures of Dorian Hawkmoon, Duke of Köln and another one of [[Michael Moorcock]]'s Eternal Champion incarnations. Dorian lives in a far-future Earth that has rebuilt itself after the [[And Man Grew Proud|Tragic Millennium]], but is being taken over by the brutal Dark Empire of [[Useful Notes/Britain|Granbretan]]. Hawkmoon, whose own land was recently conquered, has to struggle with what has happened to him as a prisoner of that regime, and strives to help one of the few holdout nations, the Karmarg, ruled by Count Brass. This sets off a quest both to remove the infernal device implanted in him by the Empire and to find the legendary Runestaff, which can help restore the balance of power.

* [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]]: While this trope isn't normally applied to humans, the Dark Empire surely must count.

* [[Evil Brit|Evil Brits]]s: Gee, ya ''think?''

* [[Living MacGuffin]]: {{spoiler|The Runestaff,}} initially-- andinitially—and one of the few male examples.

* [[Malevolent Masked Men]]: All Granbretan nobles-- innobles—in fact, they feel naked without them.

{{quote| "The Hawkmoon books were written for money and took three days each to do. But I still tried to make them the best I could do of their kind. In the end it's the public who pay me and I feel I owe readers the best value for their money I can produce, irrespective of genre or level of ambition."}}

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