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Vindictus
History says Hannibal Barca died more than two thousand years ago.
History is wrong.
The legendary Carthaginian general who brought Rome to the brink of destruction is still alive. He has survived empires, revolutions, and centuries of change—but he has never forgotten what Rome took from him.
Now, in modern-day Houston, the fragile order that has protected his secret is beginning to fracture.
At the center of it is Natalie, a young woman who should mean nothing to Hannibal. Instead, something about her reaches across the centuries to Imilce, the Iberian princess he married, loved, and left behind when he marched toward Rome.
And Hannibal is not the only one who notices.
Powerful families with roots stretching deep into the ancient world are watching. Old allegiances are shifting. Someone is settling a debt that began long before any of them were born.
As Hannibal is drawn from the shadows, he must confront descendants of the world he once fought—and determine whether the past has returned to offer him something he thought lost forever, or to take from him once again.
Blending historical fiction, conspiracy thriller, and speculative suspense, VINDICTUS moves from the ancient Mediterranean to contemporary Houston in a story of memory, identity, love, and revenge.
The past never dies. It hunts.
History is wrong.
The legendary Carthaginian general who brought Rome to the brink of destruction is still alive. He has survived empires, revolutions, and centuries of change—but he has never forgotten what Rome took from him.
Now, in modern-day Houston, the fragile order that has protected his secret is beginning to fracture.
At the center of it is Natalie, a young woman who should mean nothing to Hannibal. Instead, something about her reaches across the centuries to Imilce, the Iberian princess he married, loved, and left behind when he marched toward Rome.
And Hannibal is not the only one who notices.
Powerful families with roots stretching deep into the ancient world are watching. Old allegiances are shifting. Someone is settling a debt that began long before any of them were born.
As Hannibal is drawn from the shadows, he must confront descendants of the world he once fought—and determine whether the past has returned to offer him something he thought lost forever, or to take from him once again.
Blending historical fiction, conspiracy thriller, and speculative suspense, VINDICTUS moves from the ancient Mediterranean to contemporary Houston in a story of memory, identity, love, and revenge.
The past never dies. It hunts.
527 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2026
About the author
David H. Falloure
4 books5 followersFalloure writes about history and Texas. His latest work is Counterclockwise—a suspense thriller set primarily in 1942 Houston, but his nonfiction work includes Brands in History, the hard copy book based on his long-running blog; Deep Water: The Story of Beaumont and its Port; The Houston Ship Channel: Open to the World; and Sheer Will: The Story of the Port of Houston and the Houston Ship Channel. Those are long titles but they are long stories, and good ones, too. If you’re the YouTube type, catch Falloure in the award-winning documentary, the Houston Ship Channel: Deep Water Centennial.
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