TORN FROM TROY

Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, BC, 2011, 2nd pr.  ISBN 978-1-155380-110-8.  Trade soft cover, 199 pages plus about the author.  Unread copy, not remaindered.  ‘Alexi’s city is still burning when the Greeks catch him and give him a brutal choice:  slavery or death.  With his sister dead and his home destroyed, Alexi, a 15-year-old orphan from the streets of Troy, grits his teeth and chooses the life of a captive.  He and the other Trojan survivors are forced aboard a ship bound for faraway Ithica, under the command of the Greek warrior Odysseus.  But none could foresee the perils of the cursed voyage to come:  a brutal raid on the Cicones, a visit to the bewitching Lotus Eaters and a grisly encounter with a Cyclops all take a gruesome toll.  Alexi has no idea how much worse his life is about to get.’ (from rear wrap)