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Tros of Samothrace #Zebra 2

by Talbot Mundy

Tros will build a great ship to circle the globe and defy great Caesar on all the oceans of the world--

Reprints the original 1925 Admiral of Caesar's Fleet and The Dancing Girl of Gades

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

255 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1934

About the author

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.

Reviews

[David Mann · Rating 5 out of 5]

With this third volume, Tros finishes his massive ship and sets sail. When he arrives at the port of Gades, Roman controlled but nominally territory of Pompey, not Caesar, the layers of intrigue multiply a hundred-fold. The writing is gritty and realistic. Roman politics and life in a Roman town are depicted as well as I have ever read. The plotting and counter-plotting sometimes rises to a confusing level, but in the end a satisfying read. Now on to Helene and presumably Tros in Rome itself.