The Eternity of a Lion — Lukas Eberhard

1929 - An impressive circus lion escapes after an accident on a road close to the Greek town of Nemea. Soon, a comparison is drawn to the ancient Greek legend of the Nemean lion, strangled to death by Heracles. The authorities want the lion dead and the industrial Alfred Wright from England sets out for Nemea, seeing his chance to have a shot at a mythical beast. But he needs an expert lion hunter to track down the modern Nemean lion. He finds Gordon Carnegie, working in Nubia at that time, an experienced hunter with a checkered history. Gordon Carnegie is not the typical hunter. It was a long and twisty road, not always pleasant , that made him realize what his true talent was. Some of the wounds of the past have not healed and he is in a constant conflict between the beauty of the animals he is hunting and destroying them with a bullet. Discover Gordon Carnegie's past and find out what events eventually led him to Nemea, where he's hunting the successor of Heracles' mythological opponent. Also available as paperback edition.