Pillars of Hercules

by Constantine, David

• ISBN13: 9781597803977
• ISBN10: 1597803979
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-27
• Publisher: Nightshade Book

Summary

In the doomed Athenian province of Egypt, Alexander the Great's victorious forces bear down upon the Nile delta. At the behest of a Zoroastrian witch, two soldiers of fortune, Lugorix and Matthias, smuggle a Persian noblewoman out of Alexander's clutches and help her escape to Athens, where they ally with the legendary orator Demosthenes. Alexander has become convinced by the Oracle at Siwah that he is the son of Zeus - a demigod - and he plots to destroy the Athenian Empire, whose capital is an impregnable fortress protected by ship-patrolled moats, steam-driven catapults, and flamethrowers. But Alexander has his own magicians who harness all manner of strange devices of war - powered by fire, water, and gears - in the pursuit of victory. And now the philosopher-scientist Aristotle has made a discovery that could determine the course of the war: the location of the magical artifacts that were sunk beyond the Pillars of Hercules more than a thousand years before, in the lost city of Atlantis. But the secret that Atlantis holds was buried for a reason... Action, conquest, and steam-powered war machines come to life in Pillars of Hercules, the epic alternate-steampunk-history novel from David Constantine.