Hannibal's Carthage

Hannibal's Carthage is a sweeping, genre-defying novel that weaves three narrative strands across three thousand years: Hannibal Barca's campaigns through Iberia and Italy, a present-day New York scavenger named Chester Barker who lives in the city's margins, and a materials scientist named Toma Vasquez who reads the truth out of ancient matter.

Binding them together is a system older than any empire, a network with no center, no name most people know, and no mercy. And the earth herself, narrating everything, patient as stone, watching her children mistake her gifts for their own genius. This is a novel about what gets passed down and what gets taken.

About the things matter confesses when someone finally thinks to ask. About the difference between the man who is shaped to find a door and the man who steps through it. About sovereignty, debt, the color purple, and the one question that has never changed in three thousand years of human commerce.