David Gemmell

Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is fiercely divided. On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to the Mykene, who knows that he must soon face his former friends in deadly combat. Within the city, the Trojan king waits. Ailing and bitter, his hope is pinned on two heroes: his favourite son Hektor, and the dread Helikaon who will wreak terrible vengeance for the death of his wife at Mykene hands. War has been declared. As enemies, who are also kinsmen, are filled with bloodlust, they know that many of them will die, and that some will become heroes: heroes who will live for ever in a story that will echo down the centuries.

David Gemmell's first novel and the first in the Drenai saga - a classic of heroic fantasy.

El comienzo de una saga crepuscular La lucha desesperada de los últimos héroes que se enfrentan al emperador loco de Drenai. Ha transcurrido un siglo desde el asalto nadir a Dros Delnoch y de la salvación de Drenai. Pero el peligro se sienta ahora en el trono, desde el que un emperador desquiciado impone una tiranía con hordas de mezclados y sacerdotes guerreros. Tenaka Jan, un mestizo con sangre nadir, se enfrenta a la locura del imperio... y paga el precio de una nueva guerra.

Le vieux guerrier se nomme Druss, mais on l'appelle la Légende. Sa vie est un combat sans fin : deux bras maniant la hache au nom de l'honneur et de la justice. Pour l'ennemi nadir, il est Marche-Mort, un surnom sombre et malefique, synonyme de destruction. A la veille de son dernier combat, le vieux guerrier raconte a une jeune recrue comment il a obtenu ce titre. Comment des annees auparavant, il s'est embarque aux cotes de l'enigmatique Talisman, un guerrier nadir, dans la plus incroyable des aventures, en quete des joyaux d'Alchazzar, et comment cette epopee l'a conduit jusqu'au plus profond du royaume des morts. Lorsque la Legende se leve et marche, il ne fait pas bon se dresser sur sa route...

Druss. The Legend. Saviour of Skeln Pass. Protector of Dros Delnoch. The most famous - and dreaded - of Drenai's heroes. But before all men knew Druss he was a young husband, hewing tress instead of men - most of the time - and held in check by his beloved wife, Rowena. When she is stolen by slavers Druss becomes a killing machine intent on only one thing: Rowena's return. David Gemmell, Britain's premier writer of heroic fantasy, has returned triumphantly to his best-known character and woven new tales of magic and honour, in a time when only one man bore the title: 'Legend'!

The Legend Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy death. The Fortress Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through the mountains. It was the stronghold of the Drenai empire. And now it was the last battleground, for all else had fallen before the Nadir hordes. And hope rested on the skills of that one old man...

Primera entrega de la serie de fantasía heroica más popular del momento Tras el asesinato del rey, Drenai es devastada por el implacable Imperio Vagriano y los últimos reductos de su ejército resisten al borde de la aniquilacion. Solo si se encontrara la mitica Armadura de Bronce existiria alguna esperanza de victoria, pero la busqueda es encomendada al hombre que acabo con la vida del rey y que propicio el inicio de la guerra: Waylander el Destructor. Waylander es la primera novela del ciclo de Drenai, con el que el britanico David Gemmell se ha consagrado como el mas destacado sucesor de la tradicion encarnada por Robert. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber y Michael Moorcock. Con un estilo sobrio y elegante, Gemmell recrea un personaje despiadado, amoral y tan complejo como seductor, y lleva a la fantasia heroica a unas cotas de dramatismo y madurez desconocidas hasta el momento.

La ville de Thèbes est parvenue à vaincre l''envahisseur venue de Sparte, défaisant ses armées lors de la sanglante bataille de Leuctres. Peu à peu, conquête après conquête, la cité a recouvré sa pui

I thought I''d read the best there was on Troy. I was wrong. This is the best Sara Douglass Three lives will change the destiny of nations. Helikaon, the young prince of Dardania, haunted by a scarred and traumatic childhood. The priestess Andromache, whose fiery spirit and fierce independence threatens the might of kings. And the legendary warrior Argurios, cloaked in loneliness and driven only by thoughts of revenge. In Troy they find a city torn apart by destructive rivalries. And beyond its fabled walls blood-hungry enemies eye its riches and plot its downfall. It is a time of bravery and betrayal; a time of bloodshed and fear.