The King and Slave

Fiction & Literature, Military, Historical
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Author: Tim Leach ISBN: 9780857899248
Publisher: Atlantic Books Publication: September 4, 2014
Imprint: Atlantic Books Language: English
Author: Tim Leach
ISBN: 9780857899248
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication: September 4, 2014
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Language: English

The king is dead. Long live the king. When power falls on the shoulders of a young man, only his slave can teach him how to be great. But power corrupts, and absolute power. . . A new novel of the ancient world—in all its splendor and barbarity—from a hotly talented, prize-nominated rising star. Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father's diplomacy or charisma and all of his vanity and violence. When the warriors of Persia are unexpectedly crushed in battle Cyrus is put to death, and Cambyses assumes the throne. Croesus, once a king himself, is called upon to guide the young man; but the young man cannot be guided, and after taking offence at an insult by an Egyptian ruler, Cambyses takes the full force of his father's empire to Africa for bloody and brutal vengeance.

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The king is dead. Long live the king. When power falls on the shoulders of a young man, only his slave can teach him how to be great. But power corrupts, and absolute power. . . A new novel of the ancient world—in all its splendor and barbarity—from a hotly talented, prize-nominated rising star. Ten years after the fall of Babylon, Cyrus's army is on the march again. His slave Croesus, no longer a young man, accompanies him as always, as does the king's son and heir Cambyses, who has inherited none of his father's diplomacy or charisma and all of his vanity and violence. When the warriors of Persia are unexpectedly crushed in battle Cyrus is put to death, and Cambyses assumes the throne. Croesus, once a king himself, is called upon to guide the young man; but the young man cannot be guided, and after taking offence at an insult by an Egyptian ruler, Cambyses takes the full force of his father's empire to Africa for bloody and brutal vengeance.

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