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Scars of Odysseus: Book Two The Exile
Hardcover
Publisher: Ironheart Books
Published: Jun 14 2026
Pages: 722
Weight: 2.48
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The War Was a Mercy. The Sea Is a Grave.
Troy has fallen. The towers of Ilion are ash, and the ten-year slaughter is finally over. Odysseus, the architect of the city's destruction, turns his ships toward the setting sun, believing the worst is behind him. He believes he is going home to heal.
He is wrong.
In The King, Odysseus killed his innocence to survive the war. Now, in The Exile, he must kill his humanity to survive the journey home.
Cast adrift on a hostile ocean, the King of Ithaca faces a gauntlet of nightmares that steel cannot kill. This is not the adventure of the poets; this is a descent into the dark. From the drug-induced oblivion of the Lotus Eaters to the slaughter at the hands of the Laestrygonians, Odysseus watches his fleet-and his soul-whittled down, ship by ship, man by man.
There are no heroes on the open water. There is only hunger. There is only madness. And as the silence of the sea grows louder than the screams of his dying men, Odysseus realizes a terrifying truth:
To survive the monsters outside, he must become the monster within.
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