Between the Rivers

Young Sharur is the scion of a merchant family in the city o Gibil, loyal - he thinks - to his city''s god, Engibil, and to that god''s human deputies. But like his fellows in Gibil, Sharur is less interested in gods than in invention and trade. Then, on a routine trading expedition, he learns that the gods of the other cities, resentful of Engibil''s relaxed attitude toward his people, are unitin...