The Hostage Of Rome: bk 3 (The Histories Of Sphax)

Kidd, Robert M.

ISBN 10: 1838272089 / ISBN 13: 9781838272081

Published by Nielsen, 2022

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371 pages. May require extra postage. Size: Trade Paperback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hostage Of Rome: bk 3 (The Histories Of Sphax)
• Publisher: Nielsen
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1838272089
• ISBN 13: 9781838272081
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction - General & Literature

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Synopsis

217 BC. Rome has been savaged, beaten and is in retreat. Yet, in that winter of winters, her garrisons cling on behind the walls of Placentia and Cremona, thanks to her sea-born supplies. If he could be freed, a hostage of Rome may yet hold the key to launching a fleet of pirates that could sweep Rome from the seas. For that hostage is none other than Corinna’s son Cleon, rival heir to the throne of Illyria, held in Brundisium, four hundred miles south of the Rubicon.
But Hannibal is set on a greater prize! Macedon is the great power in Greece, feared even by Rome. Its young king, Philip, is being compared with his illustrious ancestor, Alexander the Great. An alliance with Macedon would surely sound the death knell for Rome.
Given Hannibal’s blessing, Sphax, Idwal and Corinna face an epic journey against impossible odds. Navigating the length of the Padus, past legionary garrisons and hostile Gauls, they must then risk the perils of the storm-torn Adria in the depths of the winter. If the gods favour them and they reach the lands of the pirate queen, only then will their real trials begin.