Critical acclaim for The Republic of Vengeance
 

“With its restrained, elegant and poetic tone, The Republic of Vengeance brings to mind Mary Renault. The ancient world has a new and insightful spokesman in Paul Waters.”
—Margaret George, bestselling author of The Memoirs of Cleopatra and The Autobiography of Henry VIII

“Naomi Mitchison, Mary Renault, Rosemary Sutcliff, William Golding, and classicist Paul Waters deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. Altogether a most powerful and promising debut.”
—Paul Cartledge, author of Thermopylae

"The voice of the first person narrator is absolutely believable. Few novelists I have read other than Renault bring the ancient world alive as well as Waters does here. Among the novel’s strengths are its vivid battle scenes and the restrained, tender love story. . . Paul Waters is an extraordinary new talent... Republic of Vengeance is a breathtaking trip to the past: moving, thought-provoking, and a literary treat."
- Historical Novels Review

"This engrossing and beautifully written first novel will catapult Paul Waters into the ranks of such well-known writers of the classical world as Mary Renault, Steven Pressfield, and Michael Curtis Ford."
- Library Journal