I adored this one. Gemmell's strength is definitely in his wonderful characters.
I always begin one of his books feeling sad because we've taken a vast jump forward in time and the characters I love are dead and gone and don't transfer from book to book.
But then Gemmell tosses in a whole bunch of new characters and I fall in love all over again. (Although in this case three of the main characters did transfer over because they were Reborns).
LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.