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An epic story of passion, courage and adventure in ancient Sparta, by the author of the ALEXANDER trilogy. Herodotus tells us that not all of the three hundred Spartan warriors died as a result of Xerxes, King of the Persians, in the battle of the Thermopylae: two were saved bringing a life-saving message back to the city...This is the saga of the Spartan family, torn apart by way of a cruel law that forces them to abandon one with their two sons - born lame - to the elements. The elder son, Brithos, is raised in the caste of the warriors, while the other, Talos, is spared a cruel death and it is raised by way of a Helot shepherd, one of the peasants. They live out their story in a global dominated by the clash between the Persian empire and the city-states of Greece - a ferocious, relentless conflict - before voice with their blood and of human solidarity unites them in a thrilling, singular enterprise.
