About the book: 1992 / American writer Fletcher Pratt is a historian by training, a specialist in Byzantium. Perhaps that is why the fictional world of his book, saturated with witchcraft and miracles of the sacred Well of the Unicorn, is so convincing in the details - scenes of battles and sieges of fortresses, descriptions of court intrigues and devices of long-range ballistas. The reader will encounter a novel full of adventures, thoughts and miracles, as if the pages of the book have absorbed the aroma of old wine.