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Jon Shannow Novel

The Jon Shannow trilogy combines post-apocalyptic fantasy, supernatural horror and the structure of a frontier western. Centuries after a catastrophe shattered civilisation, isolated settlements, religious movements and armed tyrants compete across a transformed world where fragments of lost technology are mistaken for miracles.

Jon Shannow, known as the Jerusalem Man, is a solitary gunfighter driven by faith, guilt and an impossible search for peace. Each novel draws him into a larger conflict involving gateways, dark gods and distorted versions of history, while keeping the focus on one man's struggle to resist fanaticism without becoming consumed by violence.

Reading order

Books in this series (3 books)

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#1 – Wolf in Shadow

David Gemmel

Three centuries after the world was broken, Jon Shannow travels through a harsh frontier of isolated towns, brigands and religious violence. Known as the Jerusalem Man, he searches for a city that may exist only in faith while trying to control the lethal instincts that have…

Bloodstone cover

#3 – Bloodstone

David Gemmel

The Deacon's religious state persecutes mutants and unbelievers while presenting the vanished Jon Shannow as a saint of its violent order. When a congregation is murdered and the killers are hunted down by a lone rider, rumours spread that the Jerusalem Man has returned. Shannow must…