Glory. Death. Well-born Athenian cavalry officer Kineas fought shoulder to shoulder with Alexander in his epic battles against the Persian hordes. But on his return from the east to his native city he finds not glory but shame
- & exile. With nothing to his name but his military skills Kineas agrees to lead a band of veterans to the city of Olbia where the Tyrant is offering good money to train the city's elite cavalry. But soon Kineas & his men find they have stumbled into a deadly maze of intrigue & conspiracy as the Tyrant plots to use them as pawns in the increasingly complex power games between his own citizens & the dread military might of Macedon. Caught between his duty to the Tyrant his loyalty to his men & a forbidden love affair with a charismatic Scythian noblewoman Kineas must call on all his Athenian guile his flair on the battlefield & even
- he is convinced
- the intervention of the gods to survive.