Quest for Lost Heroes (Drenai Tales, Book 3)

by David Gemmell

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345379047
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the best of the serise

Same basic setup only by this time in the series the great fortress at the pass that was defended by Druss has been overrun by Nadar for real this time. The cast is arrayed thusly... A monk who is a former champion of a great battle who is really conflicted about some of his past decisions in which his actions caused men to die. A drunk axmen who is really conflicted about some of his past decisions most notably his tendency to drink to great excess. A pair of foresters also veterans of the last battle who are not in this case conflicted but are probably engaged in some form of a relationship with each other considering that they have been alone in the woods for 15 years. I am not being entirely serious with this view (you can probably spot the parts I mean) I love GEMMELLstories to death. God help me I am hopelessly addicted to this guy but we all have to be honest and realize that certain character templates get used over and over again. "The main thread concerns a party of Drenai heroes following the trail of a woman kidnapped by a slave caravan. The leader of the party is also being pursued by henchmen of an arrogant nobleman that he offended" This was posted by a previous reviewer it is a plot thread that we have seen in DAVID GEMMELL stories before and will see again make no mistake. People who read these books just need to realize that and go ahead and root for the good guys anyway.

Gemmell at his finest...

I could've sworn I already wrote this up. Oh, well.Chronologically, this is set after The King Beyond the Gate, and before Winter Warriors, making it the next-to-last book in the Drenai Saga. It is set in New Gulgothir, the pitiful remnant of the Gothir nation, that we first saw the Nadir crush at the beginning of Legend.In this novel, a boy's quest to rescue a fellow villager from slavers crosses that of Chareos, Maggrig, Finn, and Belzer, the four survivors of an epic stand against the Nadir horde, led by Tenaka Khan. Ever since, the mysterious circumstances of that survival have dogged them, and now they learn the vast cosmic reason for their survival.This is, in my opinion, Gemmell's second best novel (only to be bettered by Legend). He writes best about how people go about dying...not the "littering of bodies", necessarily, but the decisions and reasons people make, and the circumstances they face, and how they present themselves. It's an utterly beautiful novel, and it sets up another great story that's itching to be told.I heartily recommend this novel.

Beyond Excellence

Having read most of Gemmell's excellent novels, this novel especially shines as one of my favorite novels in the series, as well as in the entire fantasy genre. Gemmell is without a doubt one of the best authors in the fantasy genre. Highly recommend this novel, as well as the rest of the Drenai Saga Series.

One of the best all-time books I've read

David Gemmell creates characters you start off disliking but in the end you cry for. I got so caught up in this book i could barely but it down. I recommend this book to everyone. It's a great book. I've read it twice.

Truely Excellent Reading!!

David Gemmell is the best Fantasy Fiction writer alive and has proved himself even more with this third installment of the Drenai Saga. An Extraordinary storyline of forgotten heros on a perilous quest with an underlying message of true love and friendship that keeps you anxious to turn the page. The characters again are well developed, finding yourself feeling their pains and triumphs. Definately the most intriguing novel in the series