Cyrus

SENTENCED TO DEATH EVEN BEFORE HE WAS BORN; CYRUS ROSE FROM IGNOMINYTO SEIZE THE THRONE WHICH WAS HIS BIRTHRIGHT, TO BECOME THE KING OF THEMIGHTIEST EMPIRE THE WORLD HAD EVER SEEN. IN HIS QUEST HE IS AIDED THE PRINCES OF THE SIX TRIBES OF MEDIA, AND BYHARPAGUS, ONCE ASTYAGES' OWN GENERAL; WHO HAD HIS OWN REASON TO TURNAGAINST THE TYRANT ASTYAGES. CYRUS IS AN EXCITING STORY OF INTRIGUE AND CONQUEST, OF TREACHERY ANDBETRAYAL; OF LOYALTY AND HEROISM; OF ORACLES, OMENS AND PROPHECIES; AND THEFUTILITY OF BELIEVING THEM.