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A European best-selling historical adventure series since 1972, finally in English.The next Minos raises his stone double-axe and strikes dead the sacrificial bull.The priestesses of Great Mother, topless and wrapped in snakes, intone a hymn of praise.The assembled subjects join in a howl of ovation. Thus, the new ruler of Eternal Crete is enthroned."I love you," says the new Minos to his younger brother, "but politics compels me not to trust you."Out of my love for you, I prefer not to kill you but to send you away to the ends of this earth to where the magical amber grows."It will be a long an dangerous journey from which you may never return and no one will know whither you have gone."Some may think this a terrible fate, but others may note that you have preserved your life and I have preserved my kingdom."And they shall praise my wisdom."Whitehair, the Trojan hero of the series, enters the service of Vidvoyos, the younger brother of the new Minos.This fateful decision will take him to the very edge of the world, where wild men sacrifice their kings and build stone circles in praise of the sun and where water turns to stone.Open the double doors of the horizon, unlock its bronze bolts: Pick up your copy today!

A European best-selling bronze-age adventure saga, finally in English."O Mother of the Gods!" Vidvoyos called in a clear, resounding voice. "You, the guardian of my line and my kingdom, come to our aid!"And very slowly, he raised high above his head the sacred stone double-axe, the gift of Ariadne, the very stone axe which his divine ancestors had borne when, arriving on bronze-clad ships, they laid waste to the Kingdom of Crete and took possession of it.As if answering him, suddenly a wind arose and, sweeping over the ship, whistled in the panaches of the armed men."It is She!" cried out a seafarer sitting in front of Whitehair. "She has come!"Three-and-a-half thousand years ago, at the height of the Bronze Age, Whitehair, the hero of the series, sails among the crew of the Minoan ship Angelos, the largest and fastest ship ever to have sailed the seas, in search of the confines of the world, the Sea of Gloom, and the amber it bears.And now they must either sneak or punch their way through the treacherous and jealously guarded straits of Troy, while dark, hidden powers scheme to murder their prince and captain.Open the double doors of the horizon, unlock its bronze bolts: Pick up your copy today!

A European best-selling historical adventure series since 1972, finally in English.Three-and-a-half thousand years ago, at the height of the Bronze Age, a freak storm blows a young Trojan out to sea.This begins a journey which will take him to Phoenicia, Egypt, Crete, and to the confines of the world, where amber grows, where strange peoples offer their kings as live sacrifices to their gods and build mighty stone circles to worship the sun.In this, the first volume of the series, the hero faces Sebek, the mighty Egyptian crocodile god.Sebek will eat with his mouth, Sebek will urinate and Sebek will copulate with his penis.Sebek is lord of semen, who takes women from their husbands to the place Sebek likes according to his heart's fancy.Against the almighty crocodile god, what chance does he stand, the wispy Trojan youth with egret-white hair?Open the double doors of the horizon, and unlock its bronze bolts: Pick up your copy today!