CAMERON, Christian - Tyrant : Storm of arrows - [Tyrant # 1] - (Nearly New Paperback)

 Book in a great condition - Looks almost unread to me.   >>>   Introducing Kineas, Srayanka, and their worlda world that Alexander is busy conquering  - A well-born Athenian cavalry officer, Kineas fought shoulder to shoulder with Alexander in his epic battles against the Persian hordes. But when he returns to his native city, he finds not glory but shameand exile.  With nothing to his name but his military skills, Kineas agrees to lead a band of veterans to the city of Olbia, where the Tyrant is offering good money to train the city's elite cavalry.  But soon Kineas and his men find they have stumbled into a deadly maze of intrigue and conspiracy as the Tyrant plots to use them as pawns in increasingly complex power games between his own citizens and the dread military might of Macedon.  Caught between his duty to the Tyrant, his loyalty to his men, and a forbidden love affair with a charismatic Scythian noblewoman, Kineas must call on all his Athenian guile, his flair on the battlefield, and evenhe is convincedthe intervention of the gods, to survive.     (Goodreads)   >>>   More and more people began to tell me how good an author Cameron was, however, so I tackled it in the summer of 2012. I was astonished by how good it was, and devoured it in 3 or 4 days. To say that it's well written is an understatement of the greatest kind.   (Ben Kane)