A captivating saga of life in Ancient Assyria in the 6th century BCE—when Assyrians terrorized all the inhabitants of the East, from the Near East and Egypt to the Transcaucasus and India. The reader is drawn into a surprising, mysterious world where vividly drawn heroes are bound to a rapidly developing plot. An undeniable strength of the Chronicles is that, in details or in the overall composition, the work of fiction does not conflict with the scientific and historical information we have about that time. Sound engineer — Emil Satbakov. Cover — Pavel Kungurtsev.