This is the new historical adventure from a powerful storyteller.Spring, 266 BC: When the Rhodian warship Atalanta encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, her crew find themselves caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles they're accustomed to. Among the pirates' victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who is fleeing to her lover's enemy with news that will start a war to engulf the whole of the east.Isokrates, helmsman of the Atalanta, is a humble man whose life has been devoted to the sea and ridding it of piracy. But now he finds himself crossing from one side of the Mediterranean to the other as his city tries to defend itself against powerful neighbours and Isokrates struggles to protect a woman he loves but does not dare to marry...
- ISBN10 0727866419
- ISBN13 9780727866417
- Publish Date 2 April 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 July 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English