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Troy: The Fall — the final book of the Troy Trilogy — the voices that built this world across two books converge on the ending. And new voices speak for the first time.ATHENA planned the horse. She loved Troy. She destroyed it anyway. Because some things must end for other things to begin. She tells you why. In the cold, precise, entirely honest voice of a goddess who does not look away from what her planning cost.APOLLO built Troy's walls. He cursed its prophet. He guided the arrow that killed Achilles. He loved Paris — the golden boy, the most human version of what Apollo was — and watched him die on the walls. He plays music in the ash. Because music is what remains when everything else is gone.INSIDE THE HORSE — thirty men in the dark. Six hours of silence. The sounds of Troy celebrating above them. The craftsman holding the mechanism. Odysseus in the centre managing the thirty without speaking. The door opening. The night air of Troy coming in. What happened next.HECUBA managed Troy for fifty years. She is managing now. In the fire. In the last hours. Moving people toward the places that are safer. Which are not safe. But safer. Still the queen. Still managing. To the end.AENEAS runs through the burning streets with his father on his back and his son beside him and the household gods in his arms. He does not know yet where west leads. He runs west anyway. The past carried. The future walking beside him. The beginning of something the world will eventually call by a name that does not yet exist.HELEN goes home. Menelaus finds her in a corridor. She takes his hand. The ship sails. Sparta appears on the morning of the seventh day. Hermione is on the shore. The door opens. The hand is held. The goodbye becomes a hello.CASSANDRA says the last true thing. In Mycenae. To a man who will not believe her. Because nobody believes her. Because that is the curse. She says it anyway. Because the truth demands to be said. Even then. Especially then.ODYSSEUS stands at the prow of a ship with Troy burning behind him and Ithaca ahead. He is thinking. He is always thinking. He is going home. However long it takes. Whatever the gods decide to put between him and the island. He is going home.For readers of Madeline Miller's Circe, Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, and David Gemmell's Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow.Troy: The Fall is the third and final book in the Troy Trilogy.Book One — Troy: The World Before — available now.Book Two — Troy 2: The Gathering and the War — available now.The journey continues in Odyssia: The Return of Odysseus — coming soon.