Tom Perrotta, author of Election, Little Children, and The Abstinence Teacher says this:

"THE RAGE OF ACHILLES is that rare thing--a genuinely fresh take on a classic text. Terry Hawkins' modern retelling of THE ILIAD has the paradoxical, invigorating effect of making Homer's epic feel oddly familiar, and of highlighting its deep strangeness at the same time."

Richard Selzer, PEN/Faulkner finalist and author of Confessions of a Knife and The Doctor Stories, writes:

“The outcome of the Trojan War is a matter of history, but in this masterful

account by Terence Hawkins it is infused it with all the immediacy of a

current event. The action of the story never flags, and is kept at a furious

pitch throughout. It is a book that can well be read at a single sitting, then

re-read to savor the brilliance of the writing. As Hawkins reinvents the Trojan War, he does so at the limit of what the reader can bear. Blood is perpetually recreated as a brute fact. It has to be shed, for that is its destiny. The battles are depicted in the most graphic and shocking detail in which the bloodshed has an almost

sacrificial implication without which it would be not nearly so moving. Read it and see for yourself.”