David Gemmell's first novel, Legend, was published in 1984, beginning his acclaimed Drenai saga. He was widely regarded as Britain's king of heroic fantasy. He died in July 2006.
The hardbitten champion of British heroic fantasy - Joe Abercrombie, SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Heroism and heartbreak . . . Gemmell is adrenaline with soul - Brent Weeks, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author The glory and magic of ancient Greece lives again in Gemmell's Lion of Macedon - LOCUS An enduring and compulsive epic . . . nobody writes better fantasy - STARBURST