About the Book
Sequel to HANNIBAL'S CHILDREN, this alternate history follows Marcus
Scipio, a brilliant young Roman from one of the oldest patrician
families, and Titus Norbanus, the ambitious son of a "new" Roman family
from Gaul, whose skillfully-orchestrated battles are earning him fame
and infamy - depending whose side you're on - in the Senate and among
the Roman people.
Set over a hundred years after Hannibal
defeated Rome in the Second Punic War, the exiled Romans have returned
to Italy and retaken their beloved city of the seven hills. But Rome
will never feel safe until Carthage is destroyed. While Norbanus, who
fancies himself a new Alexander the Great, expands the Roman Empire and
defeats enemies, young Scipio in Alexandria, with the backing of the
Egyptian queen, invites "philosophers" with scientific and engineering
skills to the Alexandrian Library's school to create new inventions,
from submarines to telescopes to flying machines, that will transform
warfare - and the world. Sequel to the novel Library Journal called "a
well-researched and vivid alternate history of the rivalry between Rome
and Carthage."
