| The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder.
Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come.
Shield of Thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze Age Greece, reuniting the characters from Lord of the Silver Bow; the dread Helikaon and his great love, the fiery Andromache, the mighty Hektor and the fabled storyteller, Odysseus.
David Gemmell carries us away to a four-cornered, wholly convincing cosmos, so masterfully done that the reader thinks “Ah, this is what it was really like.'
Stephen Pressfield
Gripping and fast-paced, intelligent and intensely readable … should appeal to anyone who enjoys an action-packed historical epic.
Joanne Harris
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.
Manda Scott
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