The Covenant Volume 2 Author:James A. Michener The story begins 15,000 years ago with a clan of small brown people who are facing crisis. The hardships overcome by this intrepid band are minor compared with what will eventually confront those who come after them. — The Covenant is a major novel about people, real and imaginary, caught up in the march of world history...a story of adventure a... more »nd heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal. Though not without comic elements, it portrays the tragic results of wrong decisions made by fundamentally decent people in the serene belief that they are right.« less