{"product_id":"9780230713666","title":"Of Merchants and Heroes","description":"A consuming story of love, loss and redemption set in the classical world of Rome and Greece, Of Merchants \u0026amp; Heroes is the story of a young man's pursuit of his father's murderer and and of the values and qualities he develops that will make him a man... a man capable of a deep, noble and enduring love. At the end of the third century BC, as Republican Rome's long war with Carthage was at last drawing to a close, it was already threatened by a new enemy, Philip, the tyrant king of Macedon in the east... Into this turbulent world emerges our Roman hero, Marcus, whose father is brutally murdered by pirates on a journey from Italy to Corfu on a visit to his uncle. Fate takes him to some of the great cities of the Greco-Roman world at a time of major turbulence, where he learns much and finds love unexpectedly. This is a remarkable, beautifully written debut that explores political and philosophical questions that are timeless – democracy and tyranny, war and self-defence, right and duty – as well as questions of love, loyalty and betrayal.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080192639216,"sku":"9780230713666","price":8.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780230713666_p0.jpg?v=1763677592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780230713666","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}