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The Great King

by Christian Cameron Book 4 in the The Long War series.

First published 2014

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Years after Marathon, Xerxes succeeds Darius and prepares the invasion his father failed to complete. Arimnestos is selected to escort a Greek embassy intended to delay or prevent the attack, taking him back into the Persian world where royal policy, local rivalries and memories of slavery make every stage of the mission uncertain.

The journey becomes a contest of intelligence and divided allegiance as factions on both sides manipulate the embassy for their own purposes. Arimnestos must judge whether diplomacy can alter the Great King’s plans or whether he is merely travelling deeper into a trap while Greece loses the time it needs to unite.

Historical Periods

Greco-Persian Wars499–449 BCE Achaemenid Persian Empire550–330 BCE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Historical Sagas Historical Thriller War Fiction

Historical people

Xerxes I520 BCE–466 BCE

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