Fate loves Amphitryon, the grandson of Perseus. He loves it so much that he throws you test after test. But everything that does not kill the young warrior makes him stronger. War, intrigue, betrayal, expulsion from his native Mycenae, wanderings around the Peloponnese, the hunt for the elusive Teumes fox, enmity with Pterelaus the Invulnerable, the leader of the pirates - this is how the future father of Hercules, the greatest hero of Greece, matured. The new novel by G. L. Oldie is the third novel of the famous “The Achaean Cycle,” which the authors have been working on for ten years, tells about the events preceding the books “There Must Be One Hero” and “Odysseus, Son of Laertes.” An ancient Greece of gods and heroes, kings and monsters rises before us - a beautiful stranger whose gaze can turn you to stone. Hellas, described by the star duo Oldie, has long won the love and recognition of readers.