Carthage Ascendant : The Book of Ash 2
Mary Gentle
EOS, February 2000
ISBN: 0-380-80550-2 (paperback)
In a brutal age of bloodshed and miracles where dark sorcery has extinguished the sun, the fate of
Western Europe, Africa--and perhaps all the world--rests in the hands of a warrior woman named
Ash.
The undefeated legions that are the army of Carthage rampage across the kingdoms of Europe.
Beneath a sunless sky, Burgundy alone stands in the path of the Visigoth horde and their legendary
slave general, the Faris. Deep in enemy territory lies a living stone idol of frightening power that
must be destroyed if anyone is to survive, a being that whispers in Ash's soul, that has guided her
through every military campaign, that only she and her enemy--her twin--can hear.
But there is an even greater evil that lurks at Carthage, one that created the stone idol and shaped
Ash's existence. It plots with deadly purpose the final annihilation that will wipe Burgundy from the
face of the earth. For Burgundy lies at the heart of it all--the richest prize in Europe and the key to
the world--the jewel of the Carthaginian campaign.
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