There is a legend... Britannia, AD 535 The Romans have gone. While
their libraries smoulder, roads decay and cities crumble, men with
swords pick over civilisation's carcass, slaughtering and being
slaughtered in turn. This is the story of just such a man. Like the
others, he had a sword. He slew until slain. Unlike the others, we
remember him. We remember King Arthur. This is the story of a land
neither green nor pleasant. An eldritch isle of deep forest and
dark fell haunted by swaithes, boggarts and tod-lowries,
Robin-Goodfellows and Jenny Greenteeths, and predators of rarer
appetite yet. This is the story of a legend forged from a pack of
self-serving, turd-gilding, weasel-worded lies told to justify foul
deeds and ill-gotten gains. This is the story - viscerally
entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane - of a
Dark Age myth that shaped a nation. EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT BY
FORCE ALONE: 'A bloody, bravura performance, which Tidhar pulls off
with graphic imagery and modern vernacular' Guardian. 'As eclectic
as the Sword in the Stone and as ruthless as A Game of Thrones,
this retelling of the whole Arthurian legend stands alongside the
very best' Daily Mail. 'The narrative voice is deadly serious but
there's a strong undercurrent of gleefulness to the profanity,
violence and otherworldly magic that makes By Force Alone a whole
lot of fun to dive into' Spectator. 'Lavie Tidhar has crafted a
punk epic on the mouldering bones of legend and jolted it to life
with ten thousand volts of knowing wit and fury. By Force Alone
eviscerates the complacent posturing of the Arthurian myth,
explodes the well-worn conventions of the tale and from the shiny
jagged pieces assembles a wholly fresh rollercoaster ride of cheap
violence, vicious magic and messy human truth' Richard Morgan. 'A
twisted Arthur retelling mixing the historical and the magical with
a very modern eye. Brutal and vicious, funny, Peaky Blinders of the
Round Table' Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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