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Troy: Shield Of Thunder
by David Gemmell
 
 
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Rave reviews for Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow: 'This is how the oldest tales should be read and known. Gemmell is a master of plot, but his triumph is creating men and women so real that their trials are agony and their triumph is glorious.
Conn Iggulden
 

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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Bantam Press • Historical fiction
Publication Date: 01/09/2006 • 480 pages • Royal Octavo • ISBN: 0593052226
Territory: UK C/Wealth + Can, EU • EAN: 9780593052228

 

 

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Published in 1984, David A. Gemmell’s first novel, Legend, has become a classic. His most recent Drenai and Rigante books are all published as Bantam Press hardcovers and Corgi paperbacks. All of his novels 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.

   
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