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The very first in an excellent new series set throughout the Second Punic War, in the best-selling writer of The Forgotten Legion Stories. In the Very First Punic War, the Roman armies conquered and humiliated Carthage, their only significant competitor for power in the Mediterranean. Today an excellent young Carthaginian standard, named Hannibal, has gone out for vengeance. Swept up in the maelstrom are two small kids, Hanno, the son of the famous soldier and companion of Hannibal, and Quintus, son of the Roman equestrian and landowner.