The war to end all wars. High adventure and epic storytelling combine in the final novel in David Gemmell's bestselling
Troy trilogy.
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.
Author ProfileDavid 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.
ReviewsHistory and legend combine in the epic re-creation of the Troy myth,David Gemmell carries us away into a four-cornered wholly convincing cosmos ... so masterfully done that the reader thinks, "Ah, this is what it was really like",Gripping and fast-paced, intelligent and intensely readable ... should appeal to anyone who enjoys an action-packed historical epic,The loyalties and betrayals, the love and the hate, the endless, everlasting courage of the men - and the women - of both sides are brought to life in this vivid, inspirational recreation of the Troy myth
