His work has been endorsed by such preeminent authors as Steven Pressfield, David Anthony Durham, and John Gwynne. Since his debut in 2005, his books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist he has been an Amazon Editor’s Pick and has been nominated for a Gemmell Award. Scott Oden is a bestselling author of historical fantasy and sword-and-sorcery. There, over the dead of two nations, Hasdrabal Barca will face the same choice as the heroes of old: Death and eternal fame or obscurity and long life. A final conflict remains, a reckoning set to unfold in the dusty hills east of Pelusium. Nevertheless honor and duty have bound Barca to the fate of Egypt. A man now motivated as much by love as anger. Once a fearsome demigod of war, Hasdrabal Barca becomes human again. Though her hands tend to Barca’s countless wounds, it is her spirit that heals and changes him. She is Arabian, dark-haired and proud - a healer with gifts her blood, her station, and her gender overshadow. Caught in the midst of this violence is Jauharah, a slave in the House of Life. From the political wasteland of Palestine, to the searing deserts east of the Nile, to the streets of ancient Memphis, Barca and Phanes play a desperate game of cat-and-mouse - a game culminating in the bloodiest battle of Egypt’s history. But, when one of Egypt’s most celebrated generals, a Greek mercenary called Phanes, defects to the Persians, it triggers a savage war that will tax Barca’s skills, and his humanity, to the limit. Possessed of a rage few men can fathom and fewer can withstand, Barca struggles each day to preserve the last sliver of his humanity. Leading the fight to preserve the soul of Egypt is Hasdrabal Barca, Pharaoh’s deadliest killer. While across the expanse of Sinai, like jackals drawn to carrion, the forces of the King of Persia watch and wait. Decay riddles its cities, infects its aristocracy, and weakens its armies.
and the empire of the Pharaohs is dying, crushed by the weight of its own antiquity.
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