Defender: The epic historical adventure set during the Fall of Constantinople

Constantine has finally ascended the throne as the eleventh of his name, but he inherits an empty treasury and a city bitterly divided by a controversial religious alliance with the Pope.

As riots consume the streets inside the walls, a terrifying new threat materialises outside. The ruthless young Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II takes power, determined to claim Constantinople as his ultimate prize.

Surrounded by a shrinking territory and forced to rely on foreign mercenaries, Constantine must rally a fractured city. From blood-soaked borders to the threat of a terrifying new siege engine, the empire’s survival walks a razor’s edge.

It falls once more to Gabriel, the emperor’s fiercely loyal bodyguard, to shield his master from a deadly web of politics and steel.

The second instalment in SJA Turney’s epic trilogy on the Fall of Constantinople, the last bastion of the Roman Empire.