The Gods of Fire — Robert Leader

THE GODS OF FIRE The race against time begins and the fate of the Third Planet is in the balance. Kananda and Zela have at last caught up with Raven and Maryam and now they must all return to Karakhor and Raven's spaceship. The flaming asteroid that was once part of the Fifth Planet is hurtling on its collision course with Earth's moon. In the time between the last two great ice ages they have three continents and two oceans to cross. The Hindu city of Karakhor is again under threat from an invading army and Kananda has one last battle to fight upon Earth. However, the final conflict will be in space and in the spiritual world of the astral plane. The vengeful entity that is Strang is still an awesome force for evil on the astral, despite his broken physical form. Strang places every possible obstacle in their path, and is determined that all his enemies and the planet itself must die. His powers of mental coercion mean that he can even get them to kill each other.