{"product_id":"achilles-ioakim-ioakim-9798235340435","title":"Achilles","description":"\u003cp\u003eAchilles knows before the ships sail.\u003cbr\u003eNot the details - not the name of the man who will grieve him most, not the specific afternoon when the arrow finds the one place his mother could not reach, not the quality of the dust or the weight of what he will carry. But the shape. Two roads, clearly visible, and the understanding that choosing one means losing everything the other would have given him.\u003cbr\u003eHe chooses the short road.\u003cbr\u003eHe chooses it completely.\u003cbr\u003eAchilles follows that choice from its beginning to its end. From the night of his birth in Phthia, when the sea came inland further than it had any business coming, to the morning on the plain of Troy when the world finally catches up to what he has always known was coming. In between: a mother who spent his childhood trying to make him permanent and failed at one small place. A centaur on a mountain who taught him everything he needed and nothing he wanted. A boy from Opus who walked through a gate one autumn morning with a small pack and a large weight and changed the structure of him permanently. A war that was never about what they said it was about. A rage that was also a grief. A grief that was also a love. A king who drove through the dark alone with gold and the knowledge that love was the only instrument he had left.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a novel about glory.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a novel about what glory costs.\u003cbr\u003eAbout the specific quality of a life lived completely - all the way in, nothing withheld, the choice made once and honored every day until the day it couldn't be honored anymore.\u003cbr\u003eAbout speed and grief and the people who looked at the weapon and found the man inside it and told him, in their different ways, that the man was worth finding.\u003cbr\u003eAbout knowing.\u003cbr\u003eAnd going anyway.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ioakim Ioakim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235340435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ioakim Ioakim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d","brand":"Ioakim Ioakim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48659922780415,"sku":"9798235340435","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/achilles-ioakim-ioakim-9798235340435","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}