Tyrant, Christian Cameron
Tyrant, Christian Cameron
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Tyrant

Author: Christian Cameron

Series: Tyrant

Narrator: Peter Noble

Unabridged: 19 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orion

Published: 08/27/2020


Synopsis

Ruler. Puppet Master. Killer.

Glory. Death. Well-born Athenian cavalry officer, Kineas, fought shoulder to shoulder with Alexander in his epic battles against the Persian hordes. But on his return from the east to his native city, he finds not glory but shame - and exile.

With nothing to his name but his military skills, Kineas agrees to lead a band of veterans to the city of Olbia, where the Tyrant is offering good money to train the city's elite cavalry. But soon Kineas and his men find they have stumbled into a deadly maze of intrigue and conspiracy as the Tyrant plots to use them as pawns in the increasingly complex power games between his own citizens, and the dread military might of Macedon.

Caught between his duty to the Tyrant, his loyalty to his men and a forbidden love affair with a charismatic Scythian noblewoman, Kineas must call on all his Athenian guile, his flair on the battlefield, and even - he is convinced - the intervention of the gods, to survive.

About Christian Cameron

Christian Cameron is a writer and military historian. He participates in re-enacting and experimental archaeology, teaches armoured fighting and historical swordsmanship, and takes his vacations with his family visiting battlefields, castles and cathedrals. He lives in Toronto and is busy writing his next novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carlos on May 03, 2025

[Read in Spanish] -- [Reseña en español más abajo] I really enjoyed the story as well as the characters here. Kineas is a brave human being who travels around many places trying to achieve his goal, which makes that he as a general, does get recognition as such. A character that maybe at the beginnin......more

Goodreads review by Mr. Matt on August 01, 2014

Kineas is an Athenian mercenary back from fighting with Alexander in Asia Minor and Persia. He is hired by the Tyrant of Olbia, a city on the Black Sea. On the surface it looks as if he is to train the city's cavalry to better defend against the Steppe nomads. Instead, Kineas and his companions find......more

Goodreads review by Javir11 on August 08, 2020

6,5/10 Me gusta la novela histórica, en especial la militar y por ese motivo esta lectura llevaba años llamándome la atención. La trama nos sitúa en un escenario bastante interesante, un grupo de mercenarios griegos que han luchado para Alejandro, se encuentran desterrados de sus hogares y con la cua......more

Goodreads review by Liviu on September 11, 2009

Very entertaining novel set on the Black Sea cca 330 BC; it is less of a "blood and guts" novel than I expected though it has its fair share of battles, but it has intrigue, strange cultures, discussions on the nature and meaning of war and it reads very "classical", no real discordant (ie modern s......more

Goodreads review by José on September 30, 2014

Christian Cameron sabe mezclar en su justa medida la información rigurosa sobre la época con la acción y aventura que hacen progresar a la historia y enganchar al lector. Nada especial que no encontremos en otras obras similares, una prosa sencilla, pero que cumple con el objetivo, unos personajes i......more