num_pages: 449
description: The second exciting novel in the bestselling Troy trilogy. Interlacing myth and history, adventure and love, this is epic storytelling at its best.The war in Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder.Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers — Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come.Shield of Thunder takes the reader back into the glories and tragedies of Bronze Age Greece, reuniting the characters from Lord of the Silver Bow — the dread Helikaon and his great love, the fiery Andromache, the mighty Hektor, and the fabled storyteller, Odysseus.
language: English
title: Shield of Thunder
titlecomplete: Shield of Thunder (Troy, #2)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Greek Mythology, War, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Historical Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Mythology, Fantasy
ratings_count: 10468
series: Troy
publisher: Bantam Press