Walpurgis III

On Walpurgis III, a world colonized a century earlier by exiled cults of witchcraft and Satanism, the infamous mass murderer Conrad Bland arrives seeking asylum and is hailed by some of the faithful as a dark messiah. As his reign of terror spreads, police detective John Sable and the legendary assassin Jericho are both drawn into the hunt for Bland, a chase that costs nearly as much as it saves. Part of Mike Resnick's loosely linked Birthright Universe.