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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
About the Author
Dedication
The Persians
Blood of Kings
Book One: BETRAYAL
Prologue
The Nisaean plain, Medea, in the heart of the Persian Empire
Chapter 1
The month of Aciyadiya in Year Thirty of the reign of Cyrus the Great. The land of the Massagetae, or ‘Ma-Saka’, far to the north of the Persian Empire, beyond the banks of the Yaksharta River …
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
The Persian Camp
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Central Persia, south-west of the Desert of Kavir and north of Pathragada
In Saka territory, three days north of the Yaksharta River
Chapter 7
The cells beneath the Residential Palace in Pathragada, Persia
Three days later …
Bardiya’s Hunting Lodge, a day’s journey east from Pathragada
Pathragada
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Bardiya’s Hunting Lodge
The Land Between the Rivers, nearly a month later …
Chapter 10
The Land Between the Rivers
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Babylon, twelve days later …
Book Two: WAR
Chapter 13
The Summer Palace, Ecbatana
The muster fields, west of Babylon, two months later
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Outside Memphis, Egypt, six days later
Chapter 16
On the banks of the Nile, two months later
The Royal Palace, Thebes
Chapter 17
In the desert, west of Thebes
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
The next afternoon
The Spring of the Shade
Nine days later …
Chapter 20
The Oasis of the Two Lakes
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Book Three: REVENGE
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Memphis
One month later …
The Old Royal Palace, Susa, Persia
The Palace, Memphis, one month later
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
The Land Between the Rivers
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Author’s Note
A Note on the History
How much of the rest of Blood of Kings is true?
Military matters …
Dramatis Personae
Historical Notes
The Persian Military
The Persian Calendar
Weights and Measurements
Coinage
Bibliography
Glossary
A Note on Language
Geography
Maps
Place names
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Copyright Page
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