Dan Simmons – författare

''Carrion Comfort is one of the three greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that '' STEPHEN KINGCarrion Comfort penetrates the darkest recesses of the 20th century, as one man seeks to justify his belief that a secret society of powerful beings is behind many of the world''s most horrific catastrophes. Ranking among the greatest reinventions of the vampire legend, this classic novel explores humanity''s attraction to violence and what it means for our future.Readers love Dan Simmons'' modern classic Carrion Comfort''Heart pounding'' *****''Entertaining as hell'' *****''Excellent horror from the master'' *****''So many twists and turns'' *****''Glorious'' *****

The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth -- as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.

Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer''s timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth''s human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.

And now all bets are off.