"Pen" is an ambitious photojournalist who has gone off to cover "the war" (it turns out to be a long one).
Foreword

When, in the small hours of that fateful day, the Greek champions were released from the wooden horse, it seemed as if something terrible was also released from inside every one of them: all the vengefulness on behalf of fallen comrades, all the bitterness of being away from their families, but, above all, the sheer hatred, fermented over 10 long years to produce a heady sense of vindication.
First encounters: After the sack of Troy