Some topics deserve more than a single book. Our series bring together related titles that examine a subject from different angles, creating a broader picture and a deeper understanding. Each series is designed to guide readers through complex ideas, important events, and compelling stories.
Three volumes. 4,500 years. More than 130 mercenary groups from every continent. Blood for Gold is a global history of hired warfare — from the first documented soldiers-for-hire in ancient Mesopotamia to Wagner Group contractors operating in Africa and Ukraine. Not a European history with footnotes from other continents. Every era, every region, and dozens of stories that even serious military readers have never encountered.
Three volumes. Ninety-six chapters. One continuous story. The Gods and Empires follows the evidence of human religious experience across all of history — from Neanderthal burials 100,000 years old to megachurches in Lagos and surveillance cameras in Chinese mosques. Lascaux. The birth of Islam. Not a survey of doctrines but the story of why human beings, in every culture and era, insist on looking beyond the visible world
Six thousand years. Three volumes. The hidden forces behind history's dramatic events. SHADOWS AND OATHS traces the real story of the world's secret brotherhoods — who joined them, what they believed, what they achieved. From Greek mystery cults to the Bavarian Illuminati, the Knights Templar to the Yakuza, West Africa's Poro to Italy's P2 lodge. The first popular history to take secret societies seriously, on every continent.
ESPIONAGE is a multi-volume history of spying from antiquity to the present, each volume a different facet: ancient origins, women in espionage, religious intelligence networks, double agents, industrial espionage, disinformation, technology and tradecraft, assassination, and spies in popular culture. Every book stands alone, in any order. A few figures recur across volumes by design — each time through a different lens.
Three volumes. One sweeping story. An exploration of humanity's spiritual history, tracing the evolution of religious thought and practice from prehistoric burial rites to the globalized networks of faith in the modern digital age. Across every continent and era, it follows how belief is born, spreads, and adapts — and why the search for meaning has shaped civilizations from the first graves to the online congregation.
