Sparta has imposed an uncomfortable peace over all of Greece and the once-mighty Athens is little more than a servant of its former enemy. Thrasybulus, the great general and leading politician in Athens, is working secretly to make his weakened city strong enough to throw off the Spartan yoke. But when an urgent plea for aid comes from the Oracle of Delphi, Thrasybulus sends Daimon, his most trusted agent, on a secret mission to the holy sanctuary, where the young warrior and his companions uncover a conspiracy that will destroy any hope for Athens should it succeed. Forced into a shadowy world of politics and violence, only Daimon can thwart the plot and save Athens, a city that hates and rejects him. But to do so, he must defeat a god, as well as the ghosts that haunt his soul…
