Book description
The tears of Alexander shall flow, giving bread and freedom ...612 AD.
Egypt, the jewel of the Roman Empire, seethes with unrest, as bread runs
short and the Persians plot an invasion. In Alexandria, a city divided
between Greeks and Egyptians by language, religion and far too few
soldiers, the mummy of the Great Alexander, dead for nine hundred years,
still has the power to calm the mob -- or inflame it ...Aelric, the
young British clerk who has become a senator and the trusted henchman of
Emperor Heraclius, has come to Alexandria to send Egypt's harvest to
Constantinople and to force the unwilling viceroy to give its land to
the peasants. But the city -- with its factions and conspirators --
thwarts him at every turn. And when an old enemy from Constantinople
arrives, supposedly on a quest for a religious relic that could turn the
course of the Persian war, he will have to use all his cunning, his
charm and his talent for violence to survive. Richard Blake is a
historian, broadcaster and university lecturer. He lives in Kent with
his wife and daughter.
