David Gemmell Boeken

De vestingstad Dros Delnoch, beschermd door zes dikke muren en opgetrokken in een bergpas, is de enige plek waarlangs het immense leger van de Nadir de bergen door kan trekken om de erachter gelegen landen van het rijk van de Drenai binnen te vallen. En dat leger is aantocht. Onder aanvoering van Ulric, Krijgsheer van het Noorden, trekken de barbaarse stammen en clans van de Nadir in een woeste horde van een half miljoen krijgers op tegen Dros Delnoch. De enige hoop van de tienduizend verdedigers, onder wie de jonge en hevig verliefde huurling Rock de Doler, is gevestigd op de komst van de machtige krijger over wie in alle windstreken machtige verhalen de ronde doen. Zijn naam is Druss, bijgenaamd de Bijlvechter, een legendarische held die velen dood wanen...

Een held wordt gerei͏̈ncarneerd om een profetie te laten uitkomen waarin hij een rei͏̈ncarnatie van een kwaadaardige koningin verslaat.

Een volle eeuw is verstreken sinds de heroïsche strijd om Dros Delnoch werd beslecht. De Drenai worden geregeerd door de wrede tiran Ceska die gesteund wordt door twee kwade machten: de Mengels, oersterke kruisingen tussen mens en dier, en de Duistere Tempeliers, priester-krijgers die onverslaanbaar worden geacht. Slechts één man - half Nadir, half Drenai en derhalve door beide volkeren veracht - is bereid het tegen Ceska op te nemen; Tenaka Khan, bijgenaamd de Schaduwprins, één van de beste zwaardvechters aller tijden. Samen met zijn meest vertrouwde metgezellen begint hij aan een ogenschijnlijk hopeloze missie...

Jon Shannow is a brigand-slayer, and seeker after a legendary city. Desiring only peace, he is fated to ride into battle, war and sudden death. Three hundred years after the world toppled on its axis and civilization was destroyed, Shannow appears, looking for Jerusalem.

A classic tale of action and adventure from fantasy legend David Gemmell.

Darkness falls on the Great Green, and the Ancient World is fiercely divided. On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King mass. Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to the Mykene, who knows that he must soon face his former friends in deadly combat. Within the city, the Trojan king waits. Ailing and bitter, his hope is pinned on two heroes: his favourite son Hektor, and the dread Helikaon who will wreak terrible vengeance for the death of his wife at Mykene hands. War has been declared -- a war filled with bloodlust, and peopled by heroes who will live forever in a story that will echo down the centuries. From the Paperback edition

Even in death, Skilgannon the Damned's name lives on. Now, as an ancient evil threatens to flood the Drenai heartlands in a tide of blood, he returns...A thousand years after they fell in battle, two heroes - Druss and Skilgannon - are revered throughout the war-torn lands of the Dernai, where men and women live in abject fear of the dark sorceress known as the Eternal...But what if the soul of one such hero could be called back from the void, his bones housed again in flesh? An ancient prophecy foretold that Skilgannon would return in his people's darkest hour. To most, this was a foolish hope. But not so to Landis Kan. Having found Skilgannon's ancient tomb, he gathers up the bones and peforms the mystic ritual.But the reborn hero is an enigma: a young man whose warrior skills are blunted and whose memories are fragmented. This Skilgannon is a man out of time, Marooned in a world as strange to him as a dream, remote from all he knew and loved. Or nearly all. Before bringing back Skilgannon, Landis Kan had experimented upon other bone fragments found in the hero's tomb. That ritual resulted in a surly giant who possessed astounding strength but no memories. To Kan, he is a dangerous failure. To Skilgannon, this giant represents their last hope.As ageless evil threatens to drown the Drenai lands in blood, two legendary heroes will once again lead the way to freedom.

First published 1993. Science fantasy. By the author of LEGEND

The second novel in David Gemmell's bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, and high adventure, this is epic storytelling at its very best. The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come. Shiled of thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze Age Greece, reuniting the characters from Lord of the silver bow; the dread Helikaon and his great love, the fiery Andromache, the mighty Hektor and the fabled storyteller, Odysseus.

Thousands of years ago the city of Kuan Hador, a place steeped in evil, was defeated by a vast army of mystic warriors, the Enemy banished beyond the Gateway between Worlds. Spells of enormous power sealed the Gateway.Now, in the Duchy of Kydor, two tho