The Lost Army失落的军团(畅销悬疑小说)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,小说 Fiction ,
作者: 本社 编
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出版时间: 2008-10-1字数:版次: 1页数: 416印刷时间: 2008/10/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780230530676包装: 平装内容简介
How much pride can be lodged in the chests of ten thousand indomitable warriors and the heart of a single woDlaH in love?
40i BC.Prostrated by thirty years ofwar between Athens and Sparta,the citystates of Greece are on their knees.As they flounder,Clearchus of Sparta is commissioned to recruit an army of Greek mercenaries.The trtIe purpose of these forces—the army of the‘Ten Thousand’一is not clear.Thev know thev are required to venture deep into the hostile territories at the very heart of the Persian Empire.They know they are being paid by Cyrus,brother of the Great Persian king Artaxerxes.But their official objective—clearing the area of rebel tribes—convinces no one.
The expedition is shadowed by a second army of women,including Abira,a Syrian girl who has abandoned her village to follow the young Greek warrior,Xeno,who appeared to her 1ike a god on horseback from the heavens,offering the promise of love,of adventure)of a different life.This is Abira’s tale,a tale of heroic enterprise,of a titanic succession of pitched battles,of ambushes,of forced marches through scorching deserts andfreezing mountain ranges,raging torrents and SnOW.covered tundra.Seen through her eves—the eyes of a woma n in love—everything takes on a different light.