"The first foal by the Black will be yours, Alec, and I shall send him to you."

How well Alec Ramsay remembered those words of the powerful Arab sheikh, Abu Ja Kub en Ishak! How many dreams, hopes and plans he had built upon them!

Then, from halfway around the world, from across the vast white sands of the Great Central Desert of Arabia and across the seas came his horse. And when Alec saw him, standing on spindled legs, his head held high and defiant, he knew that the colt was everything he'd hoped he'd be.

Little did Alec know what lay ahead of him in the raising and training of his horse. Little did he dream that the young black colt was a throwback to his wild forebears, horses who had roamed the desert, arrogant and ruthless, fearing neither man nor beast and harboring a savage, smoldering hatred of both.

This is a story of a boy's love for his horse, a love that was strong enough to overcome the fear within his own heart, a love that would not let him believe that his desert-born stallion could not be freed of his savage, natural instinct to kill. It is a story that will be understood and loved by boys and girls of all ages, by all those who have ever had a horse o their own or wanted one.

From the dust jacket