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'sSong of Ice and Firewith Guy Gavriel Kay's emotional sweep and Ursula K. Le Guin's ethnic diversity." -Library Journal Praise forPride of Carthage "Durham vividly captures the frenzy of ancient warfare-battle-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 "StunningDurham [is a] master of persuasion and imagination. A brilliant exploration of the tension between private destiny and historical force." -Christian Science Monitor "MasterlyDurham 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 succession-this 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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