Tom Swan and the Last Spartans

The third Tom Swan adventure returns to the networks of collectors, bankers, soldiers and spies that connect Renaissance Italy with England and the Ottoman world. After Belgrade, Swan’s knowledge of classical antiquity is inseparable from the reputation he has acquired as an agent capable of surviving difficult missions.

The available parts follow a new search in which relics and documents become instruments of finance and diplomacy. The rivalries of Italian courts, the Wars of the Roses and Ottoman expansion force Swan to decide whether scholarship can remain a neutral pursuit when every discovery is claimed by patrons seeking power.