Lacking Natural Simplicity

The Road of Kings, by Karl Edward Wagner; copyright 1979 by Conan Properties, Inc.; Bantam Books, October 1979. This is the only one of the Conan pastiches that I've read that I've really liked. Wagner is not Howard, but he was a fine writer himself, and his vision of Conan does not seem to contradict Howard's. I wish both Wagner and Howard could have lived longer.