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The Shadow King

The brand new 2023 historical epic about Alexander The Great from the Sunday Times bestseller

Harry Sidebottom author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Zaffre

Published:26th Sep '24

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Everybody has heard of Alexander the Great - but few really know his story. His life is the most extraordinary story of military adventure ever told. The epic new standalone from one of Britain's best-loved historical fiction authors.

Alexander the Great is just twenty-one years old when he sets out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world. Prince of the Macedonian royal house of Lyncestis, he becomes Alexander the Great's general and most trusted friend.

334 BC. Alexander the Great is just twenty-one years old when he sets out with a small army to challenge Persia, the largest and most powerful empire in the world.

Together, his Macedonian army marches East into the unknown - winning battles against overwhelming odds, storming impregnable fortresses from the Aegean through to India.

But there is another Alexander. Prince of the Macedonian royal house of Lyncestis, he becomes Alexander the Great's general and most trusted friend.

Alexander of Lyncestis is torn: between this friendship and the duty to avenge his murdered brothers. And he is under threat, too. Others - Persians, Greeks, Macedonians - see him as a rival for the throne. For six years of conspiracy and battle, his life hangs by a thread.

For Alexander of Lyncestis is the Shadow King.

ISBN: 9781838777999

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 26mm

Weight: 298g

432 pages