Empire of Ashes — Nicholas Nicastro

ALEXANDER THE GREAT BUILT A VAST EMPIRE IN ONLY ELEVEN YEARS. BUT AS HE RAN OUT OF WORLDS TO CONQUER, HIS ENEMIES GREW BOLDER. NOW, IN THIS STUNNING HISTORICAL THRILLER, THE LEGENDARY MILITARY GENIUS IS SHOWN THROUGH THE EYES OF HIS TRUSTED FRIEND-WHOSE ALLEGED ROLE IN ALEXANDER'S UNTIMELY DEMISE COULD EARN HIM A DEATH SENTENCE....

323 B.C. The great Alexander is dead -- and the uneasy peace in his former empire is unraveling. Machon, the late emperor's renowned friend and ally, is the scapegoat for Alexander's downfall, charged with the capital crime of the corruption of a god.

An Athenian and an outsider, Machon is prepared to accept the challenge of his accusers and tell the truth behind Alexander's meteoric rise and fall. From his bloody ascent to power and his string of victories, to the seething hatred of the peoples he conquered, to his slow descent into drunkenness, madness, and wanton brutality, this is the stunning and tragic saga of a peerless military leader who proclaimed himself a god -- and lost his humanity.