This is quite an interesting book. It's part history and part imaginative storytelling, woven together into an absorbing narrative. It's the first time any book has really conveyed to me a sense of what was really going on in those ancient times and clarified some of the differences between the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Hittites, Amorites and other kingdoms. I'm looking forward to reading the second volume: Monsters of Babylon.
This has got to be the best book I've ever read. It so thoroughly covers this extremely important part of ancient history, and explains all the things still going on in the world to this very day, that I cannot praise this work enough. As for another commenter saying it is an antisemitic canard; this can only be considered as such by either a blind man incapable of seeing the world situations of today, or a misinforming deceiver, or one of the ilk in question, or a complete fool. If this material was taught in schools the world would rapidly cease to suffer under this type of wicked system that we find ourselves in today.