A new expedition to mythological Greece by the irrepressible dreamer and inventor Fred Saberhagen brings a priceless trophy: the memoirs of Hercules himself, who, it turns out, wielded not only a club, but also a pen, and was not at all a stupid warrior, preoccupied with the complex of a divine child, but a real hero of his time, who saved the ancient Greek civilization in the great battle of gods and giants. The story of the exploits of Hercules begins detective-like: the son of Zeus accidentally kills a mischievous teacher who caught him with a maid at the most inopportune moment, and therefore ends up on trial and is exiled to those places where the Nemean Lion brazenly rampages...