Fire from Heaven

At twenty, when his reign began, Alexander the Great was already a seasoned soldier and a complex, passionate man. Fore from Heaven tells the story of the boy Alexander, and the years that shaped him. Resolute, fearless, and inheriting a striking beauty, Alexander still needed much to make him The Great. He must survive - though with lifelong scars - the dark furies of his Dionysiac mother, who kept him incertain evenof his own paternity; respect his fathers' talent for war and kingcraft, though sickened by his sexual grossness; and come to terms with his heritage from both.