Dimensions
152 x 233 x 28mm
An officer in the Athenian cavalry, Kineas returns home after battle, only to be exiled. With nothing to his name but his military skills, Kineas has no choice but to become a mercenary. Accepting a commission to soldier for the Tyrant of Olbia, he soon discovers that he and his men have stumbled into a deadly maze of intrigue and conspiracy as the Tyrant plots to use them as a pawn in the increasingly complex power games between his own citizens, the so-called barbarians of the encroaching Scythian plains and the dreaded military might of Macedon. Caught between his duty to the Tyrant, his loyalty to his men and a forbidden love affair with a charismatic Scythian noblewoman, Kineas must call on all his Athenian guile, his flair on the battlefield and even - he is convinced - the intervention of the gods, to survive.
