Living Legend
(2013)(The first book in the Histories of Odysseus series)
A novel by Mark Everett Stone
The Trojan War is over and the Greeks have lost, returning home to a country fractured by defeat while Prince Hector of Troy dreams the dream of Empire.
For Odysseus, the Fates have rewritten his epic tale of adventure that lasted twenty long years and the man the world has come to know as its greatest traveler/adventurer has arrived home to the tiny island kingdom of Ithaka to lick his wounds and reassemble his life. Glad to be shut of war, he begins the process of rebuilding only to have his plans upset by rumors of political unrest and the death of a tyrant. Forced to travel to the mainland to attend the funeral games for a fallen king, he is plunged into a murder mystery that could set Greece on the path of a brand new, devastating war. Can Greece's most clever hero outsmart a villain who knows him quite well? Can he defy legendary monsters, the spirits of vengeance and even the Gods to solve the world's first whodunnit?
Genre: Fantasy
For Odysseus, the Fates have rewritten his epic tale of adventure that lasted twenty long years and the man the world has come to know as its greatest traveler/adventurer has arrived home to the tiny island kingdom of Ithaka to lick his wounds and reassemble his life. Glad to be shut of war, he begins the process of rebuilding only to have his plans upset by rumors of political unrest and the death of a tyrant. Forced to travel to the mainland to attend the funeral games for a fallen king, he is plunged into a murder mystery that could set Greece on the path of a brand new, devastating war. Can Greece's most clever hero outsmart a villain who knows him quite well? Can he defy legendary monsters, the spirits of vengeance and even the Gods to solve the world's first whodunnit?
Genre: Fantasy
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