Troy series: Characters city. Agamemnon pursues Helikaon to Thera, believing him to have smuggled the treasure out of Troy. Once there, he is caught up in its eruption and is killed. Priam is the king of Troy. He was traditionally killed by Achilles' vengeful son. In Gemmell's series, he is ruthless, heartless, cunning and crafty. Priam is ageing. He once had many sons, but by the start of the trilogy they have been whittled down to six. He is known to have had at least five killed himself. He cares for none of these sons except Hektor. He humiliates them all, constantly comparing
The Fall of the King the Count's Feud in 1536, and ends at Mikkel's death. "The Fall of the King" was named best Danish novel of the 20th century by the newspapers Politiken and Berlingske Tidende, independently of each other, in 1999 and was in 2006 included in the controversial Culture Canon published by the Ministry for Culture. On this list of significant Danish works of art, "The Fall of the King" was ranked alongside works by Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard, Karen Blixen and others. The Fall of the King The Fall of the King () is a novel by Danish author Johannes V.