CYRUS: An Historical Novel

SENTENCED TO DEATH EVEN BEFORE HE WAS BORN; CYRUS ROSE FROM IGNOMINY
TO SEIZE THE THRONE WHICH WAS HIS BIRTHRIGHT, TO BECOME THE KING OF THE
MIGHTIEST EMPIRE THE WORLD HAD EVER SEEN.
IN HIS QUEST HE IS AIDED THE PRINCES OF THE SIX TRIBES OF MEDIA, AND BY
HARPAGUS, ONCE ASTYAGES' OWN GENERAL; WHO HAD HIS OWN REASON TO TURN
AGAINST THE TYRANT ASTYAGES.
CYRUS IS AN EXCITING STORY OF INTRIGUE AND CONQUEST, OF TREACHERY AND
BETRAYAL; OF LOYALTY AND HEROISM; OF ORACLES, OMENS AND PROPHECIES; AND THE
FUTILITY OF BELIEVING THEM.