He was given the gift of home. His men threw it away.
After escaping the Cyclops, Odysseus is granted what no other mortal has ever received — a bag containing all the winds of the world, a gift from Aiolos, Keeper of the Winds. Ithaca is within sight. One more day and the ten-year nightmare ends.
Then his crew opens the bag.
In a single moment, everything is lost. Blown to the edge of the known world, to a harbor that should have been safe. But the Laistrygones do not welcome strangers. They hunt them.
Giant, cannibal monsters who smash ships with mountain rocks and spear men like fish, the Laistrygones will destroy eleven of Odysseus's twelve ships. Only one will escape.
ODYSSEY: THE GREAT RETURN - BOOK IV: Aiolos & Laistrygones is the most tragic and brutal chapter yet in the modern epic retelling of Homer's Odyssey.
The Epic Journey of Nostos continues. The wind gives hope. The giants take it away.
BOOK IV Features:
The breathtaking floating island of Aeolia and the power of Aiolos
The heartbreaking betrayal of the bag of winds
The terrifying massacre at the harbor of the Laistrygones
A lesson in leadership, greed, and the cost of mis
