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  • Hardcover: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (4 Feb 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752898604
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752898605
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Satyrus and Melitta, twin heirs to a rich kingdom on the Black Sea, become desperate fugitives when their mother, the Scythian warrior-princess Srayanka, is cut down in a savage act of betrayal. Accompanied by their tutor, the Spartan Philokles, they must make a perilous journey west, pursued by ruthless assassins, to find sanctuary with the army of their father's closest friend, Diodorus. But Diodorus is caught up in the tangled web of alliances, betrayals and intrigue that followed Alexander the Great's death, as his generals fought over the huge empire he had created - and soon the twins will have their first taste of real battle as two Macedonian warlords clash. In this violent and unstable world, they must chose sides carefully, as Antigonus One-Eye, and his brilliant son Demetrius, prepare to take on the might of Ptolemy's Egypt, and the forces gather for the biggest and most spectacular battle the world had ever seen - Gaza.

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Writer and military historian Christian Cameron is a former US Naval Intelligence officer and the co-author, with his father, Kenneth Cameron, of the acclaimed Gordon Kent military thriller series, as well as the Tyrant series and WASHINGTON AND CAESAR, a novel of the American Revolution. He lives with his family in Toronto.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Almost as good as the two first episodes, 21 Feb 2010
This review is from: Tyrant: Funeral Games (Hardcover)
I is rather rare to have a series where book three is (almost) as good as the two previous ones, which, in my view, merit five stars each. This one is a very good read and rather exciting: a real page-turner. The characters are well drawn. The book is well written. The author is generally well documented but here comes the catch: for the purpose of this novel, Chris Cameron has, for once, taken a few liberties with history. This is especially the case in the second half of the book, with the campaign culminating in the battle of Gaza. Some are the author's interpretations, made for the purpose of the novel.

One such is the idea that Antigonos' real intention in 312-311 was to conquer Egypt and that his movement with the larger part of his army towards Europe was just a feint. The opposite seems to have been the case, with Demetrios' role being to hold Syria and Palestine against Ptolemy. As a matter of fact, Ptolemy's army at the battle of Gaza seems to have been LARGER than that of Demetrios who certainly did not have 20000 heavy infantry (only 11000). There was no native egyptian phalanx, whether hoplites or sarissa-armed at the time. This is an anachronism (at least according to the sources): native egyptians (as opposed to Greco-Macedonian colonists or mercenaries) were only sarissa-armed for the battle of Raphia in 217 by one of Ptolemy's sucessors. The battle itself was not a climax. It was mainly a cavalry fight and the phalanxes do not even seem to have engaged with each other. Losses were slight, mainly cavalry (about 500 each side out of 4000 on each side). Demetrios fled the field once his left wing cavalry had been broken and 8000 of his heavy infantry surrendered almost without a fight, once they were surrounded by ennemy cavalry. Ptolemy, short of manpower, took them over (they were not sold off as slaves).

Another comment: what happens to Banugul after Herakles is captured by Stratokles? She seems to vanish from the story...

Despite this (and a few other) minor inaccuracies, Chris Cameron does a very good job in making this rather complex (but fascinating) period come to life. Many of his secondary characters are in fact real, such as Stratokles, the scheeming Athenian, or Herakles, who did present himself as the son of Alexander (and of Barsine, not of Banugul).
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Third book in a compelling Saga, 28 Mar 2010
By Bill Pugsley "Bill" (Hampshire, England) - See all my reviews
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Although it has been a while since reading the first and second books of the Tyrant series I was soon 'hooked' on this third installment and had trouble in putting it down. When I did reach the end I was immediately wondering when the fourth book would be available.

Based in the period after Alexander the Great' death it vividly brought to life what the people of that time endured/enjoyed - the descriptions of every day life as thorough as the detail of the battle scenes.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Third book even better than first two, 4 Mar 2010
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I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading Funeral Games and the previous books. To me there seems to be the right amount of character interaction combined with good honest battle/fighting sequences. Kineas was a great character and his kids are even better. It is rare for a third book in the series to be better than the first two but for me this was. Thanks Christian!
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