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The High City

Cecelia Holland

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#7224 of 8,085 books · #972 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2010).

It is the early years of the reign of Basil II, who became one most successful, and most feared, Byzantine emperors. But for now, Basil rules as a co-emperor with his brother Constantine, and makes war on a would-be usurper, Bardas Phokas, son of a General who Basil supplanted. Basil's most trusted troops are foreign mercenaries, the Varangian guard hired from the North. Rus and Norsemen, Viking raiders and wild horsemen from the steppes, they fall upon the elegant city of Constantinople like wolves on a garden party. Among them is the wily young son of an Irish slave, who comes to the notice of the emperor's wife. But being noticed by an angry emperor is not safe at all.

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Publisher
Forge Books
ISBN-13
9781466840836
Topics
Byzantine political intrigueWar and power strugglesMercenaries and court life

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