by Gisbert Haefs · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435061339
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«La espada de Cartago» is the historical novel by Gisbert Haefs, published by Edhasa in hardback (384 pages, in Spanish).
In Carthage, Bomilcar, chief of the urban guard, investigates the murder of one of the city's judges in an environment of coexistence among Iberians, Numidians, Carthaginians and Maqueos, with Roman spies in play. The investigation intersects with the theft of the sword of Carthage, an enigma of enormous political value that tests his loyalty.
Published on 11 October 2007 in the Narrativas Históricas collection; translation by Carlos Fortea.
Aimed at readers of historical fiction interested in Antiquity, politics and mysteries set in Carthage.
Gisbert Haefs is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander, won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.
