Bravery, brutality and adventure. And the rest is history. Sicily 405 AD: the infinite duel between man and superpower begins. Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse, will face Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. Dionysius brutal military conquests transform Syracuse into the most powerful Greek city west of the mainland. Building the largest army of antiquity he marches to Carthage to fight a war to end all wars.

The thundering new historical epic from the Sunday Times bestselling master of the genre Valerio Massimo Manfredi is the leading brand-name author of historical fiction.