In Hannibal, Ross Leckie brings to life the colossal struggle of the Punic wars and the Carthaginian general who routed the great Roman armies of his time. In a narrative of breathtaking scope and energy, Leckie's portrait of Hannibal is both dramatic and scrupulously imagined. A chronicle of tragedy, of passion, heroism and cruelty, Hannibal is an epic recasting of the tale of one of history's greatest adventurers, recounted by a master storyteller.