The Falcon Of Sparta

Conn Iggulden, the bestselling author of the Emperor, Conqueror and The Wars of the Roses series, returns to the Ancient World with a ferociously bloody epic. In 401 BC, the Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones, battles can be won or lost with a single blow. Princes fall, and when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, food, or water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors. Based on one of history's most epic stories of adventure, The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed of the Ancient World.