Description: "Historical fiction writer Durham successfully turns to epic fantasy in a series opener that combines the moral ambiguity and brutality of George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire with Guy Gavriel Kay's emotional sweep and Ursula K. Le Guin's ethnic diversity." Library Journal Praise for Pride of Carthage "Durham vividly captures the frenzy of ancient warfarebattle-maddened pachyderms, hails of javelins and arrows, ordered ranks of Roman light infantry crumbling before Hannibal's mercenary army of ''copper-skinned'' Libyans, tattooed and dreadlocked Numidians and blond, blood-drinking Gauls. 'The world is cruel,' Durham's Hannibal proclaims, and it is." The New York Times "Stunning...Durham [is a] master of persuasion and imagination. A brilliant exploration of the tension between private destiny and historical force." Christian Science Monitor "Masterly...Durham has delivered some of the best battle scenes on the page since Michael Shaara's Civil War fiction." San Francisco Chronicle "Durham leaps continents and centuries to tell the epic story of Hannibal and his march on Rome in this heady, richly textured novel. . . . The novel's grand sweep is balanced by intimate portraits of Hannibal, his family, his allies and his enemies." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Treachery in the throne room, princes in hiding, ancestors reaching from beyond the grave, wars of successionthis is a novel that Shakespeare would have loved. David Anthony Durham is rebuilding epic fantasy from the ground up. There are books that you visit for a vacation, and then there are books that you live in. Get ready to have your mail forwarded to Acacia." James Patrick Kelly, Hugo Award winner

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