Book description
Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is
fiercely divided.
On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal
to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled
storyteller and reluctant ally to the Mykene, who knows that he must
soon face his former friends in deadly combat.
Within the city, the Trojan king waits. Ailing and bitter, his hope
is pinned on two heroes: his favourite son Hektor, and the
dread Helikaon who will wreak terrible vengeance for the death
of his wife at Mykene hands.
War has been declared.
As enemies, who are also kinsmen, are filled with bloodlust, they
know that many of them will die, and that some will become heroes:
heroes who will live for ever in a story that will echo down the centuries.
David A. Gemmell's first novel, Legend, was published in
1984 and became an instant classic. His most recent Drenai and Rigante
novels are available as Corgi paperbacks; all are Sunday Times
bestsellers. Now widely regarded as one of the finest writers of
heroic fantasy, David Gemmell lived in East Sussex until his death in
July 2006.
Stella Gemmell is a journalist, and worked with her husband
on all three Troy novels. She concluded Troy
: Fall of Kings after his death.
