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Tyrant

Tyrant, Book 1

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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.

©2020 Christian Cameron (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Ancient Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Scary
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Excellent looking forward to the series the performance was outstanding the story very good I hope the series will be as good as the killer of men thank you

Dominick

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This was great really enjoyable listen and a perfect narration but Peter got the next one cued up ready

Fantastic

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Tyrant is not as strong a story as Killer of men and not as epic as Alexander. A good book but it did not grip me enough to continue the series any further

A good listen but not will not read the next one

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This is the first CC book I've listened too and it was pretty good. Perhaps a little slow at times but maybe that was just me. The narrator was also very good, performing a number of authentic sounding voices which is not an easy thing to keep track of so hats of to him for that.
BUT, his pronunciation of Antipater as Aunty Patter was the only, but seriously annoying blot on the performance. He managed to pronounce Antigonas correctly, and not as Aunty Gonas, so why he should have got the former wrong, is anybodies guess.
It's one of those childhood mispronunciations that you pronounce slowly for the first time as you see it; fortunately the only blemish. Of course I could be wrong; perhaps that is how they pronounced it way back then and he has after all done his research. 🤔 Who knows? Mick the Hick.😊

Not bad; not bad at all.

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once again, impeccably written by Christian and read by Peter. Peter was a completely different speaker this time round showing an incredible range. the only thing I could take away from it is my own fault, Greek names being similar I occasionally mixed up the names kineas and nikeas since it's just the swap of the n & k, but like I said, my own stupidity 🤣 highly recommend

another strike

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