An omnibus edition of The Face of Apollo, Ariadne's Web and The Arms of Hercules. Cover art by Marc Fishman.
With THE BOOKS OF THE GODS, the best selling author of THE COMPLETE
BOOK OF SWORDS and the LOST SWORDS series turns his prodigious
talents to age-old mythology, putting a surprise twist on three
classic tales.
Centuries ago, it seemed the gods had disappeared from the world.
But now, suddenly, they're back – the sun god Apollo; Hades, Lord of
darkness; Thanatos, the personification of death, the enigmatic
Trickster; Hephaestus the Fire-Worker and others – at large among
mankind thanks to mysterious masks that merge with the mortals who
put them on.
When he presses the FACE OF APOLLO to his head, orphaned peasant
boy Jeremy Redthorn becomes the host for the Lord of Light himself.
Apollo's avatar had been destroyed in a titanic battle with his
mortal enemy, Hades, and all that was left of him was the translucent
shard of his Face. It fell to Sal, a warrior in the god's human army,
to deliver the Face to a worthy new host. But before she could tell
Jeremy what her secret treasure really was, she, too, was killed.
Vowing not to fail her, Jeremy continues Sal's quest, even after the
object in his care dissolves into his flesh, giving him unimaginable
knowledge and setting him on an adventure from which there is no
turning back...
Long before he absorbed the Face of Dionysus, god of debauchery
and madness, Alex, a soldier in King Minos' army, fell into ARIADNE'S
WEB. Ariadne, the king's daughter, had fallen in love with Theseus, a
young man sentenced to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. Determined to
save him from that grisly fate, she enlisted Alex's help, only to
find that Theseus wasn't at all what he seemed. With mythical beasts
and dark gods confronting them at every turn, Ariadne and Alex must
negotiate a maze of events as tangled as they are dangerous.
Only THE ARMS OF HERCULES could have tackled the miraculous tasks
legend attributed to him. But now the half-mortal son of Zeus tells
us his version of the Twelve Labors, setting the record straight on
everything from slaying the nine-headed Hydra to seizing the girdle
of the Amazon Queen to stealing the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.
Befriended by the Lord of Light, besieged by the God of Death,
Hercules travels from the heights of Olympus to the depths of hell
itself in adventures that will shake the very foundations of heaven
and earth.
