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Title	:	Quest for Lost Heroes (The Drenai Saga #4)
Author	:	David Gemmell
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	May 31st 1995 by Del Rey (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Heroic Fantasy. Epic Fantasy

Quest for Lost Heroes (The Drenai Saga #4) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 291 pages

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The Drenai stronghold had fallen. Now blood-hungry Nadir hordes spread desolation and despair across all the lands... ...even tiny Gothir, where slavers seized a young girl while the villagers looked the other way--all but the peasant boy Kiall. His unlikely rescue attempt would lead across the savage steppes and on through the Halls of Hell. The youth would face ferocious beasts, deadly warriors, and demons of the dark; he would emerge a man--or not emerge at all. But Kiall would not face these dangers alone. Heroes out of legend joined his quest: Chareos the Blademaster, Beltzer the Axeman, and the bowmen Finn and Maggrig. And one among their company hid a secret that could free the world of Nadir domination. That one was the Nadir Bane, the hope of the Drenai. That one was the Earl of Bronze. Thus did a search for a stolen slave girl become a quest that would shake the very world.

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Original Title:	Quest for Lost Heroes
ISBN:	0345379047 (ISBN13: 9780345379047)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Drenai Saga #4, Ciclo Drenai (chronological order) #11

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Did Gemmell ever write a bad book? I've made it my business to find out, and so far, so good. QUEST FOR LOST HEROES is another in his Drenai saga which began with the excellent LEGEND and shows no signs of slowing down at this stage.As the title would imply, this book adopts a quest/journey narrative and casts a band of ageing one-were-heroes as its leads. The story is slight and the characters fill out the usual archetypes, but as usual Gemmell uses this background as a springboard for his two

4 StarsI have really enjoyed revisiting this book/series. I chose this series as part f my reading challenge for this year, and as a buddy read with one of my colleagues. Even though the first book in the series was released in 1984 (and the latest in 2000) the series has pretty much stood the test of time. It is a fantastic action adventure fantasy- with superb characters and brilliant world building, which brings the whole story/series to life.I have fond memories of discovering this series

What starts as a simple rescue of village girl ends up as a much grander quest with many participants, some willing, some unwilling in event that will define Nadir relations with other kingdoms - Drenai and Gothir - in coming years.Story is very much a cross of True Grit and 7 Samurai/Magnificent Seven. Asked to help young farmer Kiall to save the girl kidnapped by slave traders war-veteran-swordsman-turned-monk Chareos will gather group of battle hardened warriors that fought at his side years

Another solid book in the Drenai saga. As most of the books in the series, it starts slowly but picks up speed and by the time you get to 70% it explodes and wish you were at 20% not 70%! Alas that is not possible and you devour the last pages, discovering the tragic fate (for some) of the characters.Mr Gemmell certainly likes to dwelve into human emotions and exploit the extremities. He's done that in all of his books, but in this one and the previous chronological one he went full on.Even

The few against the many. It was a time of heroes. This is the fourth Drenai novel, however, when it comes to the internal chronology of the saga, it is the eighth volume. This novel is proof that a book, despite its secondariness and being to a large extent a derivative, can be a very good read.The story takes place about twenty years after the events described in The King Beyond the Gate. After the fall of Dros Delnoch (presently Tanaka Castle) the Nadir flooded the Drenai lands, destroying,

3.5 stars.The fortress of Dros Delnoch has fallen and the Drenai nation have been conquered by the vicious Nadir (they cant complain they were warned the Nadir have been a threat for the previous three books after all). In the tiny realm of Gothir, a young village girl the pig-breeders daughter, no less is kidnapped by slavers and a peasant boy from the same village, with a head full of heroic dreams and fancying himself in love with the girl, sets off to rescue her. On the way he is joined

Quest for Lost Heroes is only the second fantasy novel by David Gemmell that I have read. I should probably read more. I remember the first one, Legend, as being realistic and gritty. Prior to my reading of Game of Thrones, I thought it captured the filth and stench of medieval life better than anything I had read. I liked the fact that Gemmell captured heroism without glorifying battle and that he didnt oversimplify the quests of his protagonist(s) with nationalistic/racist slogans. His