![]() Gemmell’s love-letter to the work of Louis L’Amour (though also bearing the influence of the Clint Eastwood film, Pale Rider, which had been released a couple of years earlier), Wolf in Shadow was written when Gemmell was in danger of losing his job as a journalist (sure enough, he was made redundant a short while after), and when – as he recalls in his preface to a reissue of the novel – he was coming to terms with the fact that his mother had terminal cancer. This is the first in a loose trilogy of novels featuring Jon Shannow, half-crazed Christian pilgrim and gun-toting hero who stalks the post-apocalyptic world of the future, in search of the lost city of Jerusalem. You can buy the novel here: Ravenheart: A Novel Of The Rigante: (The Rigante Book 3) ![]() The third novel in the Rigante sequence, Ravenheart earns its place on this list chiefly because of its most magnetic character, Jaim Grymauch, who of all Gemmell’s characters – perhaps apart from Druss – is the one most closely modelled on Gemmell’s stepfather, whose strength and courage appear to have been crucial to the development of Gemmell’s worldview (reflected in his work). You can buy the novel here: Sword In The Storm: A breath-taking, adrenalin-fuelled read from the master of heroic fantasy (Rigante) ![]()
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