The Porphyry Novels: Book One "Gripping and powerful right from the first page." Peter Tonkin, author of Caesar's Spies 1453. After a thousand years, the sun is setting on the Eastern Roman Empire... As a great Ottoman army prepares to strike Constantinople,...
1452: After a thousand years, the sun is setting on the Eastern Roman Empire... The covetous eye of the Ottoman Sultan has set itself firmly upon Constantinople. His great army prepares to strike, while the Byzantine court is split between those who would sacrifice everything...