'Leckie writes unflinchingly of this world of blood, battle and atrocity.'
Sunday Telegraph

In the third century BC, the two greatest empires of the ancient world are locked in bitter struggle. The wars
between Rome and Carthage will see some of the most bloody and savage battles of all time, in which hundreds
of thousands of men will die, and Rome will win mastery of the known world. Amid this, a figure will emerge who
has become the stuff of myth and legend: Hannibal.

In this breathtaking chronicle of love and hate, heroism and cruelty, one of humanity's greatest adventurers and
warfare's greatest generals returns to life. Hannibal learns, through suffering, that man is but a shadow of a dream.

'Full of wonderful scenes . . . Leckie lights up this world for us with fabulous energy.' The Times

'A tremendous novel in the class of I, Claudius.' Allan Massie

'Its triumph is to bring the world of Carthage to life again.' Spectator