The Final Reckoning: A Stunning Conclusion to Pat Barker’s Trojan War Trilogy

The war is over. Troy lies in ruins, its treasures stolen, its people enslaved. Among them is Cassandra, the doomed prophetess, forced to become King Agamemnon’s concubine. Haunted by visions of her own death, she sees the blood-stained future unfolding before her, while her loyal maid, Ritsa, bears witness to the horrors that await them both.

But in Mycenae, another woman waits. Queen Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, has spent a decade nursing her grief and rage after he sacrificed their daughter for victory. Now, she prepares for his return—not as a hero, but as a man walking blindly toward his own destruction.

"A great man doesn’t necessarily make a good one."

As one woman sails toward her fate and another sharpens her knife, history hurtles toward its inevitable, brutal climax. In The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker reimagined the untold voices of war; now, in this electrifying conclusion, she delivers a tale of vengeance, survival, and the unbreakable bond between women caught in the wake of men’s destruction.