Son of Hydra

The powerful historical novel of love, exile and redemption based on the true story of Australia’s first Greek convict.

He had everything: power, privilege, a future. One reckless decision cost him his name, his freedom, and everything he thought defined a man.

Sydney, 1829.

Ghikas Voulgaris was born to command, the proud son of a powerful Greek shipping family, raised to believe the world would bend to his will.

When he and his friends attack a ship supplying the enemy during the Greek War of Independence, it sets off a chain of consequences he can’t outrun. His punishment is swift and public: exile to the raw penal colony of New South Wales, half a world away from his island home, stripped of name and status.

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