Series
Jon Shannow
David Gemmell · 3 novels · 1 short story · 1987–1994
David Gemmell's Jon Shannow novels follow the Jerusalem Man, a lone gunfighter roaming a post-apocalyptic American landscape that has regressed to something between the Wild West and a broken civilization, searching for the lost city of Jerusalem while hunting down evildoers along the way. The story runs across Wolf in Shadow and two further novels.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Jon Shannow at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s2
- 1990s2
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author · completed series
reads like:post-apocalypticredemptionparallel universefar futuredarkadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Bloodstonedarkest · calmest
- The Last Guardianbrightest · most intense