Achilles, the world’s greatest warrior. Odysseus, the world’s most cunning pirate. Agamemnon, the world’s most ambitious King, and Helen, the world’s most beautiful and powerful Queen. A wealthy and sophisticated world order turned upside down in an act of diplomatic sacrilege, and a tale of war as old as Western literature itself.

The first book in the series introduces all of the central characters of the story and takes us from the marriage of Helen of Sparta, through her abduction at the hands of Paris, the Trojan prince. to the gathering of the Greek fleet at Aulis.