The One-Armed Warrior: A Short Story

Noble Smith

Mei 2013 · Verkoop deur Macmillan

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In the ancient Greek city-state of Plataea, teenage warriors trained in the ways of the battlefield long before they reached the age of eighteen. They also trained in the vicious, no-holds-barred form of unarmed combat called pankration. Similar to today's Ultimate Fighting and MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), this extreme style of man-on-man battle was featured in the original Olympic games.

And sometimes, those pankration techniques were used not just for glory on the battlefield or in the Olympic stadium, but in the fields outside the city gates to settle personal, deep-seated grudges between fighters.

The short story The One-Armed Warrior introduces the young pankrator Nikias, the hero of Noble Smith's forthcoming novel Sons of Zeus, a work of historical fiction that will appeal to fans of Steven Saylor, Steven Pressfield, and Simon Scarrow.

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NOBLE SMITH is an award-winning playwright who has worked as a video game writer, a documentary film executive producer and the media director of an international human rights foundation. He is also the author of The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life. He lives in Bellingham, Washington with his wife and children.