Name: Protector
ISBN: 9780241420423

Conn Iggulden

PRE-ORDER THE LATEST ANCIENT EPIC IN THE NEW ATHENIAN SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EMPEROR AND WAR OF THE ROSES Set in the bloody, brutal world of Ancient Persia, an age of ever-shifting loyalties and epic battles. Witness the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire. Praise for Conn Iggulden 'The pace is nail-biting and the set-dressing magnificent' Times 'Pacy...and packed with action' Sunday Times 'One of our finest historical novelists' Daily Express 'Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic, historical fiction' Daily Mirror.

Protector

Pam Sartain

Protector by Conn Iggulden is the second book in the Athenian series.  You can read my review of The Gates of Athens  here .

Protector is set after the Persians have taken Athens, and it's burning.  Themistocles is ready to go to war with the Persians again to reclaim Athens.

This is an action packed book, with lots of fighting, and descriptions of men fighting with swords, but there are also fights of words. 

I found this book to be very battle heavy, and have realised that this isn't something that I always want in my books, but I enjoyed the classical Greek history that inspired this book. 

 Protector  was published on 13th May 2021, and is available from  Amazon ,  Waterstones  and  Bookshop.org .

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I was given this book in return for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to  Penguin Michael Joseph .