The story opens in Alexandria in the years after Diocletian’s siege, when the city of the Ptolemies still shone between the Mediterranean, the Delta and the desert. In its second book the novel moves across the centuries to the British campaign in Palestine during the First World War, where a stalwart stranger appears in camp as the gates of Gaza fall.
An ambitious, unusual work by the author of The Dop Doctor, for readers who like their historical fiction on a grand scale. Download the free EPUB.
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