Looking for some help with book titles.

[toothy]

Hi there guys. I'm a 19 year old student from York.
I recently was trying to recall some of the books I read many years ago, and I'd like to see if anyone can remember the titles that I've forgotten, based on the scanty plot details I remember.
I guess I'm not hoping for much, just because I remember very little. I'm posting at this forum becuase I think the books I'm trying to remember fall broadly into the catagory of young science fiction.

1. Probably the one I remember the most of. It opened with the lead character being thrown into a gladiator's ring. The evil character was called 'One' (I think) and I seem to remember this character being composed of 8 people who spoke in unison. And rather oddly, a very indelible image from this book is that of the lead character killing someone by punching them through their temple.

I'll add some more later.
Thanks!

 

[toothy]

Haha, wow. This bizarrely came into my head again and I thought I'd bump just in case

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I'm moving this to the Book Search forum, where it might get more attention.

 

[murphy]

It sounds like the S. M. Stirling book which was first released as The Sharpest Edge, then much later, and with some additions, released as Saber & Shadow. He wrote it with Shirley Meier. The lead characters were two women Shkai'ra & Megan. It was part of the Fifth Millenium series. There was a god king involved who seemed to be made up of multiple personalities.

 

[murphy]

It also made me think of the Robert Adams Horseclan series, but it's been so long since I read them, I don't remember a lot. Check out here and see if any of those covers look familiar.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

How about one of the Dumerest books by E. C. Tubb.

Dumerest spends a lot of time in hand to hand combat gladiatorial style.

Either way they are a fantastic series of books (personal opinion of course)