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Historical person
276 BCE–229 BCE
Hamilcar Barca was a Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal. He commanded in Sicily during the closing years of the First Punic War, suppressed the Mercenary War and then built a new Carthaginian power base in Iberia.
In John Stack’s Mutiny, the rescue mission takes Atticus back to Carthage and into an uneasy partnership with Hamilcar Barca, a former enemy now charged with preserving the state. In John Stack’s Master of Rome, in Rome he encounters blame, ambition and renewed suspicion of his Greek birth, while Hamilcar Barca emerges as a formidable Carthaginian opponent. Other novels featuring Hamilcar Barca include John Stack’s Retribution, John Stack’s Treachery, and Gustave Flaubert’s Salammbo.
Series
The Masters of the Sea trilogy follows Atticus Perennis, a Greek-born captain whose seamanship becomes essential when the Roman Republic attempts to challenge Carthage during the First Punic War. Paired with the Roman centurion Septimus, Atticus must turn soldiers into fighting sailors while navigating a command system in…
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The Mercenary of Rome trilogy returns to Atticus Perennis and Septimus after the First Punic War has left Carthage defeated, indebted and unable to pay the multinational army that fought for it. The resulting Mercenary War draws the Roman sailors into a conflict of mutiny, piracy, hostage-taking and…
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Standalone books
