Alecto : Songbook

by Gordon Reece

Alecto is one of the furies from Greek mythology. Along with her sisters, Tisiphone and Megaera she kills the mortals that Zeus singles out for divine punishment. She is ruthless and implacable. With the advent of Christianity however, the Christian God sends his black angels to wipe out the Greek gods and in a surprise attack on Mount Olympus and Hades everyone is murdered except Alecto. Alecto spends the next two thousand years fleeing from the black angels who will not be satisfied until she is dead. She disguises herself as a mortal and keeps her winged claws strapped down in a tight corset that gives her constant pain.

66 pages, Paperback

Published June 2, 2006

About the author

Gordon Reece is a writer/illustrator based in North East Victoria, Australia. Born in the UK in 1963 he studied English literature at Keble College, Oxford, and was a teacher and briefly a personal injury
lawyer before dedicating himself full-time to writing and illustrating in 1999.

Gordon has had 15 books for children and young adults published in Australia and Spain where he lived for six years. His new novel, MICE, (Allen and Unwin, 2010), has sold to twelve countries so far including the USA (Viking) and UK (Macmillan). The first adventure of Count Oblonsky and Petrov (‘The Curse of Red Skull’) is published by Macmillan (Spain, 2010).

Gordon also writes graphic novels and is a life-long comics fan. He is a member of AACE, the Spanish association of comic book writers.