At twenty, when his reign began, Alexander the Great was already a seasoned soldier and a complex, passionate man. Resolute, fearless, and inheriting a striking beauty, Alexander still needed much to make him The Great. This title tells the story of the boy Alexander, and the years that shaped him.

An account of the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs, finally entering Afghanistan.

Alexander lies dying, and around his body gather the generals, the provincial satraps and the royal wives, already competing for the prizes of power and land. Only Bagaos, the Persian boy mourning in the shadows wants nothing. The final part of the Alexander trilogy, this title traces the events of the fifteen years following Alexander's death.

Includes textual and historical notes that supplement a segment of Plutarch's Lives which covers the rise of Macedonia.

Tells the story of the climactic last seven years of Alexander the Great's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. The relationship between the beautiful young eunuch and the great general's sustains Alexander as he survives assassination plots, the demands of two foreign wives, a mutinous army, and his own ferocious temper.