Sunday 17 August 2008

Valerio Massimo Manfredi – “Tyrant”

Publ: 2005 ISBN: 1 4050 4091 2
Rating: ****



A novel about 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.

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

Valerio Massimo Manfredi see http://bookeverysixdays.blogspot.com/2008/08/valerio-massimo-manfredi-last-legion.html

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