 Oden's breakthrough novel was 2005's "Men of Bronze".It was followed in 2006 by "Memnon" and in 2010 with "The Lion of Cairo", which mixed pulp-style action and sorcery with Crusader politics in Fatimid Egypt.Oden returned in June 2017 with his critically acclaimed “Orc novel”, "A Gathering of Ravens" — the first in a projected trilogy of stand-alone novels featuring the savage orc Grimnir.