Troy: Fall of Kings

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From Publishers Weekly In this last installment of David Gemmell's Trojan trilogy (following Troy: Shield of Thunder), Helen is a plain, mousy woman whose beauty is entirely of the inner sort, and Hektor is a cuckold left raising another man's son. Agamemnon is depicted as a rapacious predator seeking the riches of Troy to support the armies he needs to hold the territories he has conquered, and Priam a shadow of his former glory, brought low by an Alzheimer's-like disease. Strong characterizations and sturdy plotting evoke the horror of the conflict, and the story's mythic power. David Gemmell left the novel uncompleted upon his untimely death in 2006, but his wife, Stella, who did most of his research, has brought the books to a satisfactory conclusion. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “If Hollywood wants to find a new book-based, war-filled fantasy franchise that repeats the success of The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia . . . it may want to look to Gemmell for inspiration.”—_Wall Street Journal_ “Unexpected twists and turns . . . This imaginative retelling breathes new life into [this] tale of intrigue and deception.”—_Booklist _ “Strong characterizations and sturdy plotting evoke the horror of the conflict, and the story’s mythic power.”—_Publishers Weekly _