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Name: The Blood Star

Author: Nicholas Guild
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Historical fiction

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9780689118982
0689118988

Shot through with dark, exotic lyricism, Guild's majestic historical epic cuts a wide swath through ancient Assyria, Egypt, Phoenicia, Sicily, Greece. Its narrator-hero, Tiglath Ashur, seen before in The Assyrian , is banished from Nineveh by his hated half-brother, the Assyrian king, partly due to a misunderstanding that is not cleared up until long after the brothers are reconciled. Fleeing the king's assassins, Tiglath encounters formulaic elements of the adventure novel--sudden perils, gory battles, omens, spicy lovemaking.

This book is part of the "Tiglath Ashur" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Assyrian"
First published in 1987
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