![]() ![]() ![]() The Labyrinth could be a bewildering place. For two days, we had travelled the Labyrinth – across pits of darkness and around lakes of poison, through dilapidated shopping malls with only discount Halloween stores and questionable Chinese food buffets. Where to begin? With Grover and Meg, of course. It’s not even enough that he enslaved me – his formerly favourite son – to a pushy twelve-year-old demigod named Meg! On top of all that, Zeus wants me to record my shame for posterity. It’s not enough that he sent me on a dangerous quest to liberate five great ancient Oracles from a trio of evil Roman emperors. It’s not enough that he turned me, the once-divine Apollo, into a mortal teenager with acne, flab and the alias Lester Papadopoulos. Doubtless, Zeus expects me to tell you the story as part of my punishment. Why are you still here? Go away! But, alas, I suppose I have no choice. It was the lowest, most humiliating, most awful week in my four-thousand-plus years of life. 1 Once was Apollo Now a rat in the Lab’rinth Send help. When three are known and Tiber reached alive, ’Tis only then Apollo starts to jive. The cloven guide alone the way does know, To walk the path in thine own enemy’s boots. To westward palace must the Lester go Demeter’s daughter finds her ancient roots. Yet southward must the sun now trace its course, Through mazes dark to lands of scorching death To find the master of the swift white horse And wrest from him the crossword speaker’s breath. The changeling lord shall face a challenge dire, Till bodies fill the Tiber beyond count. Follow him on Twitter To learn more about him and his books, visit: Books by Rick Riordan The Percy Jackson series PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF* PERCY JACKSON AND THE SEA OF MONSTERS* PERCY JACKSON AND THE TITAN’S CURSE* PERCY JACKSON AND THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH PERCY JACKSON AND THE LAST OLYMPIAN THE DEMIGOD FILES CAMP HALF-BLOOD CONFIDENTIAL PERCY JACKSON AND THE GREEK GODS PERCY JACKSON AND THE GREEK HEROES The Heroes of Olympus series THE LOST HERO* THE SON OF NEPTUNE* THE MARK OF ATHENA* THE HOUSE OF HADES THE BLOOD OF OLYMPUS THE DEMIGOD DIARIES The Kane Chronicles series THE RED PYRAMID* THE THRONE OF FIRE* THE SERPENT’S SHADOW* BROOKLYN HOUSE MAGICIAN’S MANUAL The Percy Jackson and Kane Chronicles Adventures DEMIGODS AND MAGICIANS: THE SON OF SOBEK, THE STAFF OF SERAPIS & THE CROWN OF PTOLEMY The Magnus Chase series MAGNUS CHASE AND THE SWORD OF SUMMER MAGNUS CHASE AND THE HAMMER OF THOR MAGNUS CHASE AND THE SHIP OF THE DEAD HOTEL VALHALLA: GUIDE TO THE NORSE WORLDS The Trials of Apollo series THE HIDDEN ORACLE THE DARK PROPHECY THE BURNING MAZE * Also available as a graphic novel To Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, I hope you’re pleased with yourself The Dark Prophecy The words that memory wrought are set to fire, Ere new moon rises o’er the Devil’s Mount. Rick lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons. His Greek myth collections, Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods and Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes, were New York Times number-one bestsellers as well. Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Guide to Apollo-Speak ABOUT THE AUTHOR RICK RIORDAN, dubbed ‘storyteller of the gods’ by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five New York Times number-one bestselling middle-grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson, the Heroes of Olympus and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology the Kane Chronicles, based on Egyptian mythology and Magnus Chase, based on Norse mythology. ![]()
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