{"product_id":"9781466839151","title":"The One-Armed Warrior: A Short Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the ancient Greek city-state of Plataea, teenage warriors trained in the ways of the battlefield long before they reached the age of eighteen. They also trained in the vicious, no-holds-barred form of unarmed combat called pankration. Similar to today's Ultimate Fighting and MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), this extreme style of man-on-man battle was featured in the original Olympic games. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd sometimes, those pankration techniques were used not just for glory on the battlefield or in the Olympic stadium, but in the fields outside the city gates to settle personal, deep-seated grudges between fighters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe short story \u003ci\u003eThe One-Armed Warrior \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces the young pankrator Nikias, the hero of Noble Smith's forthcoming novel \u003ci\u003eSons of Zeus\u003c\/i\u003e, a work of historical fiction that will appeal to fans of Steven Saylor, Steven Pressfield, and Simon Scarrow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124743192816,"sku":"9781466839151","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466839151_p0.jpg?v=1763686134","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466839151","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}