The Face of Apollo (Book of the Gods, Volume 1)

SUMMARY: Fred Saberhagen, one of the legends and luminaries in science fiction and fantasy and the bestselling author of the Berzerker Series continues to put his twist on Ancient Greek mythology with book four of his Book of the Gods heroic fantasy series, The God of the Golden Fleece.A man has come out of the sea -- brain damaged in a fight with a terrible giant -- remembering very little about himself. He knows his name is Proteus, and that he was sent to join Jason and the Argonauts as they embarked on the greatest journey the world has ever known.When Princess Medea, who also has an interest in Jason's journey, is struck by Cupid's arrow, she falls so desperately in love with Jason that she is ready to betray her father and to lure her own brother to his death, so that Jason may win the Golden Fleece.Neither Medea nor Jason, knows that there is a god amongst the crew. This is one more item that Proteus has forgotten. SUMMARY: Fred Saberhagen, one of the legends and luminaries in science fiction and fantasy and the bestselling author of the Berzerker Series continues to put his twist on Ancient Greek mythology with book four of his Book of the Gods heroic fantasy series, The God of the Golden Fleece.A man has come out of the sea -- brain damaged in a fight with a terrible giant -- remembering very little about himself. He knows his name is Proteus, and that he was sent to join Jason and the Argonauts as they embarked on the greatest journey the world has ever known.When Princess Medea, who also has an interest in Jason's journey, is struck by Cupid's arrow, she falls so desperately in love with Jason that she is ready to betray her father and to lure her own brother to his death, so that Jason may win the Golden Fleece.Neither Medea nor Jason, knows that there is a god amongst the crew. This is one more item that Proteus has forgotten. Centuries ago, it seemed that the gods had deserted humanity. But, now, suddenly they are back. Not only the sun god Apollo, but his unrelenting enemy-dark Hades, Lord of the Underworld, greedy for human bodies and sould to gather into his domain. And others, including Thanatos, the personification of Death the enigmatic Trickster; and Hephaestus the Smith, the wonderworker of magical technology. The past meets the present in a struggle of wills, and neither Jeremy nor the world he inhabits will ever be the same A mythological fantasy in which a woman gives the hero, Jeremy Redthorn, the mask of Apollo, the god of light slain by Hades, the ruler of the underworld. Jeremy puts it on and in a flash is transformed into Apollo himself, whereupon he sets off for Mount Olympus to settle scores with Hades. By the author of On Merlin's Bones