Jon Shannow by David Gemmell

The John Shannow series of novels follows Jon Shannow - The Jerusalem Man and includes the novels Wolf in Shadow, The Last Guardian and Bloodstone. This series is also part of the larger series, The Stones of Power which begins the story with Ghost king and Last sword of power.

Written by the late, great David Gemmell, these novels are set in a post-apocalyptic world, 300 years after Armageddon. The world has been broken and civilization survives in small pockets. Abaddon, the Lord of the Pit seeks to throw mankind into a new satanic era.

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Bloodstone

by David Gemmell

Bloodstone is the third novel in the Jon Shannow series written by David Gemmell and follows the events in Wolf in Shadow and the Last Guardian.

More than 300 years after the world was split by the Apocalypse and the earth is a wasteland with pockets of humanity clinging to survival.

The Jerusalem Man has long vanished and is now considered a saint of a new religious order that controls the land, to speak ill of his memory is considered heresy.

The...

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reviewed on Thursday 18 February 2010

The Last Guardian

by David Gemmell

The Last Guardian is the second novel in the Jon Shannow series, written by David Gemmell.

300 years after the Apocalypse that has torn the earth apart, humanity is reduced to pockets of suvivors living amongst a waste torn land, stalked by mutants and much much worse. While the Earth quaked, a deadly power burst forth from ancient Atlantis. For the gate of time had been torn open, freeing a cataclysmic evil.

Only the last guardian, Jon Shannow, the legendary pis...

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reviewed on Wednesday 20 January 2010

Wolf in Shadow

by David Gemmell

Wolf in Shadow is the first volume in the Jon Shannow series written by the late David Gemmell.

300 years after Armageddon has caused the earth to topple on it's axis, the Jerusalem Man wonders the post-apocolyptic wastes. This isn't some aimless wondering though, Jon has a mission to local the Fabled city of Jerusalem which has been fortold in the bible to have been reborn.

Abaddon, the Lord of the pit and his hell-born army are trying to plunge this shattered w...

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reviewed on Friday 18 December 2009