This book had a very unique feel to it. It might be that I might not have come across something like this but still it does not take anything away. It is a story of a Sicilian warrior-cum-leader which has a lot of biographical methodology. It is as if the author wanted to let people understand the protagonist and the simplest method he chose was also the most ancient way of knowledge dispersal, i.e. story-telling.
The lead character is Dionysius, the soldier who has the blood of a family of generals. He depicts the traits of a person who has a great disregard for democracy, more because of the unavoidable delays in decision making that it brings and diplomacy that it encourages. The life of Dionysius, right from the young foot soldier in the sicilian army, humiliated by
The author, Manfredi, has all the right qualifications to come out with a book of this caliber.
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