Exciting news - my publishers have just released a free online preview of my novel Total War Rome: Destroy Carthage in advance of hardback publication of the book in the UK and the US on 3 September, the same day that Sega release Total War: ROME II. Click on the image to read the chapter-length Prologue, set during the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC when Rome finally defeated Macedonia and opened the way for conquest of Greece and the East ..