Strategos

<p><strong>'A great story ... Doherty's writing is evocative providing richly detailed scenes of life in medieval Byzantium' <em>World History Encyclopedia</em></strong></p> <h2>Tragedy broke him. Revenge will remake him.</h2> <p>AD 1046. The Byzantine Empire teeters on the brink of full-blown war with the mighty Seljuk Sultanate. The two great powers vie to control Anatolia - a land of strife riven with bloodshed and doubt.</p> <p>Young Apion's life is shattered one night when his family is murdered during a brutal Seljuk raid. Left for dead in his burning home then rescued but only to be sold into slavery it seems that he is destined for a cruel life. Until a benevolent Seljuk farmer Mansur offers him a second chance at happiness.</p> <p>Yet despite his new life of pastoral harmony on Mansur's border farm a hunger for revenge burns in Apion's soul. Then a fateful encounter draws him down a dark path that leads him right into the heart of a conflict that will echo through the ages...</p> <p><strong>The gripping first novel in the Strategos series perfect for fans of S.J.A. Turney and Simon Scarrow.</strong></p>