Charon: A Dragon at the Gate (Four Lords of the Diamond #3)

By: Jack L. Chalker

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Synopsis: They took the body of Park Lacoch and stripped away his mind, transferring the mind of a top Confederacy operator to his brain. Then they stuck him aboard a spaceship and exiled him to Charon, one of the Worlds of the Warden Diamond, from which no man could return. A mysterious organism on those worlds infected everything, making life away from them impossible afterward. Charon was a hell world in literal fact. It wass too near its sun, making life all but unbearable in its hot steamy atmosphere.Strange beasts roamed its jungles--and stranger still, the group known as the Witchcraft plotted with the Lord in exile to take over the planed. There Witchcraft was real--for on Charon, magic worked. The Warden organism could be made to perform almost any feat under the control of a skilled witch or sorcerer--as Park Lancoch discovered when he was transformed into a changeling--a half beast, half man, with the beast rapidly gaining ascendancy. After that his assignment really became difficult...