Lord of the Silver Bow

Lord of the Silver Bow is the first book in David Gemmell's Troy trilogy, his final series before his death.

The story follows Helikaon, a bold warrior and prince of Dardania also known as Aeneas, who captains the largest ship in the Aegean Sea. After a journey filled with storms, shipwrecks, and a bloody sea battle, he arrives in Troy, a city riven by internal rivalries and threatened by enemy kingdoms.

Stripping away most of Homer's supernatural elements like the gods, Gemmell presents a realist, historical approach to the legendary war, focusing on themes of honor, treachery, love, and the brutal costs of trade wars between regional superpowers in the ancient eastern Mediterranean.