To protect Corinthian citizens Timoleon has his own brother murdered. Rejection by his family and society follow. Yet, once again Corinth tests his sense of honour and public duty by sending him to Sicily to defeat the tyrants who rule there. A host of characters - from squabbling tyrants to a mysterious Spartan, Callistredes; the corrupt financier Porcys; the tragic Clytemnestra and Timoleon's son, Telemachus, battling with greed and corruption to restore justice to 'Greater Greece' fill the pages with their adventures in this historical novel with a very contemporary reference.