Killer of Men
By (Author) Christian Cameron
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
27th September 2011
26th May 2011
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
496
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 36mm
380g
Arimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero, but a slave. Betrayed by his jealous and cowardly cousin, the freedom he fought for has now vanished and he becomes the property of a rich citizen of Ephesus.
So begins an epic journey from slavery that takes the young Arimnestos through a world poised on the brink of an epic confrontation, as the emerging civilisation of the Greeks starts to flex its muscles against the established empire of the Persians. As he tries to make his fortune and revenge himself on the man who disinherited him, Arimnestos discovers that he has a talent that pays well in this new, violent world, for like his hero, Achilles, he is 'a killer of men.'Gripping * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *
Christian Cameron is a former US Naval Intelligence officer and the co-author, with his father, Ken Cameron, of the acclaimed Gordon Kent military thriller series, as well as Washington and Caesar, a novel of the American Revolution. He lives with his family in Toronto.