Spring, 266 BC When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles he’s accustomed to. Among the pirates’ victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who is fleeing to her lover’s enemy with news that will start a war to engulf the whole of the east . . .
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Previous titles from this author include Dark North, Bloodwood and Elixir of Youth.
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