The ultimate historical adventure novel: the life of Alexander the
Great in a single, epic volume.
To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more
extraordinary.
As a boy, Alexander dreamed of matching the heroic feats of Achilles. At
eighteen he led the Macedonian cavalry to a stunning victory against the
Greeks. By twenty-five he had crushed the Persians in three monumental
battles and was the master of the greatest empire the world had ever
seen. Men began to call him a god. But behind the legend was another,
more complex story.
Narrated by his boyhood friend Ptolemy, this is the story of Alexander
as you have never heard it before: raw, intimate, thrilling - a story of
extraordinary daring and unimaginable endurance; of wanton destruction
and murderous intrigue - the epic tragedy of a man who aimed to be more
than human.