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A European best-selling historical adventure series since 1972, finally in English.The next Minos raises his stone double-axe and strikes dead the sacrificial bull.The priestesses of Great Mother, topless and wrapped in snakes, intone a hymn of praise.The assembled subjects join in a howl of ovation. Thus, the new ruler of Eternal Crete is enthroned."I love you," says the new Minos to his younger brother, "but politics compels me not to trust you."Out of my love for you, I prefer not to kill you but to send you away to the ends of this earth to where the magical amber grows."It will be a long an dangerous journey from which you may never return and no one will know whither you have gone."Some may think this a terrible fate, but others may note that you have preserved your life and I have preserved my kingdom."And they shall praise my wisdom."Whitehair, the Trojan hero of the series, enters the service of Vidvoyos, the younger brother of the new Minos.This fateful decision will take him to the very edge of the world, where wild men sacrifice their kings and build stone circles in praise of the sun and where water turns to stone.Open the double doors of the horizon, unlock its bronze bolts: Pick up your copy today!

Rome's greatest poet was sent into exile for life and his works were consigned to damnatio memoriae -- eternal forgetting. But they weren't forgotten. Readers touched by their beauty preserved their precious volumes and copied them by hand so that the literature which had offended the government of Rome may yet live on forever. And it has.But who was Ovid? And what crime did he commit to bring down his punishment?This innovative novel presents the life of Ovid in a kind of live variety show, hosted by the narrator in the role of the emcee. The show features light-hearted sexy bits based on Ovid's erotic poems (including a striptease by the emperor's granddaughter), stress poetry, Emperor Augustus' internal monologues, political commentary, and a police investigation ("what crime did Ovid commit?"). The investigation device allows the author to present several original ideas as to the possible causes of the exile. And all of this dazzling structural innovation is couched in movingly beautiful prose.While the point isn't belabored, ultimately, like all of Boche¿ski's books, this too is a book about the individual's relationship to the ruling tyranny and the figure of Emperor Augustus looms large over the whole work. Because of its frank treatment of the topic of dictatorship, the book was eventually banned by the communist regime, and that "exile" forced its author into a new role: that of a prominent political dissident."It would be difficult to find a more brilliant fictional treatment of Ovid's life than this hilariously serious entertainment"--Theodore Ziolkowski, Ovid and the ModernsGet your copy today

A European best-selling bronze-age adventure saga, finally in English."O Mother of the Gods!" Vidvoyos called in a clear, resounding voice. "You, the guardian of my line and my kingdom, come to our aid!"And very slowly, he raised high above his head the sacred stone double-axe, the gift of Ariadne, the very stone axe which his divine ancestors had borne when, arriving on bronze-clad ships, they laid waste to the Kingdom of Crete and took possession of it.As if answering him, suddenly a wind arose and, sweeping over the ship, whistled in the panaches of the armed men."It is She!" cried out a seafarer sitting in front of Whitehair. "She has come!"Three-and-a-half thousand years ago, at the height of the Bronze Age, Whitehair, the hero of the series, sails among the crew of the Minoan ship Angelos, the largest and fastest ship ever to have sailed the seas, in search of the confines of the world, the Sea of Gloom, and the amber it bears.And now they must either sneak or punch their way through the treacherous and jealously guarded straits of Troy, while dark, hidden powers scheme to murder their prince and captain.Open the double doors of the horizon, unlock its bronze bolts: Pick up your copy today!

Can't go forward without going back. Cold Warriors return to Berlin to settle old scores.This place, West Berlin, was then (1980-1989) an enclave: an island of the free democratic West in the heart of communist East Germany.As such, it was a refuge for many: young German men avoiding compulsory military service in the Bundeswehr, migratory birds, asylum seekers from the communist east, immigrants, shipwrecked people, anarchists, artists, people who loved differently or thought differently.West Berlin was perfect for any runaway.And perfect for every spy.Twenty years later, the Wall has fallen and the world has moved on.The past is past.No one cares or even remembers.Except the men and women who had lived through that time, for whom the past is an open, festering wound, a great burning mystery.Who was the mole among them?Were they manipulated and by whom?Find out. Get your copy today.

Can't go forward without going back. Cold Warriors return to Berlin to settle old scores.This place, West Berlin, was then (1980-1989) an enclave: an island of the free democratic West in the heart of communist East Germany.As such, it was a refuge for many: young German men avoiding compulsory military service in the Bundeswehr, migratory birds, asylum seekers from the communist east, immigrants, shipwrecked people, anarchists, artists, people who loved differently or thought differently.West Berlin was perfect for any runaway.And perfect for every spy.Twenty years later, the Wall has fallen and the world has moved on.The past is past.No one cares or even remembers.Except the men and women who had lived through that time, for whom the past is an open, festering wound, a great burning mystery.Who was the mole among them?Were they manipulated and by whom?For whose interests have they really wrecked their lives?Find out. Pick up your copy today.

A European best-selling historical adventure series since 1972, finally in English.Three-and-a-half thousand years ago, at the height of the Bronze Age, a freak storm blows a young Trojan out to sea.This begins a journey which will take him to Phoenicia, Egypt, Crete, and to the confines of the world, where amber grows, where strange peoples offer their kings as live sacrifices to their gods and build mighty stone circles to worship the sun.In this, the first volume of the series, the hero faces Sebek, the mighty Egyptian crocodile god.Sebek will eat with his mouth, Sebek will urinate and Sebek will copulate with his penis.Sebek is lord of semen, who takes women from their husbands to the place Sebek likes according to his heart's fancy.Against the almighty crocodile god, what chance does he stand, the wispy Trojan youth with egret-white hair?Open the double doors of the horizon, and unlock its bronze bolts: Pick up your copy today!

Rome's greatest poet was sent into exile for life and his works were consigned to damnatio memoriae -- eternal forgetting. But they weren't forgotten. Readers touched by their beauty preserved their precious volumes and copied them by hand so that the literature which had offended the government of Rome may yet live on forever. And it has.But who was Ovid? And what crime did he commit to bring down his punishment?This innovative novel presents the life of Ovid in a kind of live variety show, hosted by the narrator in the role of the emcee. The show features light-hearted sexy bits based on Ovid's erotic poems (including a striptease by the emperor's granddaughter), stress poetry, Emperor Augustus' internal monologues, political commentary, and a police investigation ("what crime did Ovid commit?"). The investigation device allows the author to present several original ideas as to the possible causes of the exile. And all of this dazzling structural innovation is couched in movingly beautiful prose.While the point isn't belabored, ultimately, like all of Boche¿ski's books, this too is a book about the individual's relationship to the ruling tyranny and the figure of Emperor Augustus looms large over the whole work. Because of its frank treatment of the topic of dictatorship, the book was eventually banned by the communist regime, and that "exile" forced its author into a new role: that of a prominent political dissident."It would be difficult to find a more brilliant fictional treatment of Ovid's life than this hilariously serious entertainment"--Theodore Ziolkowski, Ovid and the Moderns