The Arms of Hercules — Fred Saberhagen

Continuing Book of the Gods, the series that kicked off with The Face of Apollo and Adrian's Web, New York Times-bestselling author Fred Saberhagen (The Berserker Series) again puts his own twist on Greek mythology in Book III, The Arms of Hercules.

Hercules is the son of the nearly omnipotent Zeus, King of the Gods and a human, whose beauty sparked lust in the great god. The arms of Hercules looked no more muscular than those of many other men--but his father was the greatest god in all the world. Hercules, the son of Zeus, crushed monsters, Giants, and legendary warriors in combat.

Until one challenge remains: the harrowing of the underworld, the one place where strength does not matter. Hercules is pitted against the greatest monsters that classical literature and Saberhagen's vivid imagination could create, and his struggles come vividly to life in his fight to the death, against death itself.