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| Author/Contributor(s): | Gemmell, David |
| Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
| Date: | 10/31/2006 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
With this first masterly volume in an epic reimagining of the Trojan War, David Gemmell has written an ageless drama of brave deeds and fierce battles, of honor and treachery, of love won and lost.
He is a man of many names. Some call him the Golden One; others, the Lord of theSilver Bow. To the Dardanians, he is Prince Aeneas. But to his friends, he is , fast, quick of mind, he is a bold warrior, hated by his enemies, feared evenby his Trojan allies. For there is a darkness at the heart of the Golden One, a savagerythat, once awakened, can be appeased only with blood.
Argurios the Mykene is a peerlessfighter, a man of unbending principles and unbreakable will. Like all of the Mykenewarriors, he lives to conquer and to kill. Dispatched by King Agamemnon to scoutthe defenses of the golden city of Troy, he is Helikaon’s sworn enemy.
Andromacheis a priestess of Thera betrothed against her will to Hektor, prince of Troy. Scornfulof tradition, skilled in the arts of war, and passionate in the ways of her order,Andromache vows to love whom she pleases and to live as she desires.
Now fate isabout to thrust these three together–and, from the sparks of passionate love andhate, ignite a fire that will engulf the world.





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