Rome's Assassin — William Kelso

214 BCE. The war between Rome and Carthage has reached a stalemate. Rampaging through southern Italy, Hannibal rides high after his stunning battlefield successes. But in Spain the Romans, under the able leadership of the brothers Gnaeus and Publius Scipio, have managed to prevent Carthaginian reinforcements from moving to support Carthage’s star general.Looking to break the deadlock, the crafty masters of Carthage hope to persuade new allies into their anti-Roman alliance in an attempt to widen the war and overwhelm Rome. Called upon to serve the Republic, Flavius, dutiful father, Roman spy and assassin is once again thrown into the covert battle to prevent Carthage from succeeding in her aims. A journey that will take him from the sprawling streets of the metropolis of Syracuse to the lawless mountainous wilderness of Illyria and northern Greece. In this deadly secretive war, a bitter struggle between rival spies, where death comes by an assassin’s blade, nothing is like what it seems.For Flavius however disillusionment has set in. The personal cost of his involvement in the great ongoing war with Carthage has been high, perhaps it is too high.