title: Mago Scrolls I, II, and III: An epic saga of the Punic Wars
author: Mr. Morgan Hart
description: Morgan Hart grew up as a university brat moving from one ivory tower to the next as his father, a distinguished theologian, pursued the twin grails of untainted academe and native west-slope cutthroat trout. Two events during his time as a collegiate camp follower warped Morgan for the rest of his life. His father's sabbatical in Rome triggered an enduring addiction to food and antiquity, while the purchase of family property in Northwest Montana and the resultant indentured servitude thinly disguised as raising cattle made him a proto-convert to the knowledge-based economy. Morgan's interests in military and narrative history served him well during a three-decade career toiling for various appendages of the military industrial complex. Morgan began work on the Mago Scrolls the day he fired his last client, the United States Army. The scrolls combine Morgan's passion for food, wine, and antiquity with his not-too-unhealthy obsessions with gratuitous sex and violence.
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  Donovan Pasha
  
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  A FOREWORD
  
  WHILE THE LAMP HOLDS OUT TO BURN
  
  THE PRICE OF THE GRINDSTONE—AND THE DRUM
  
  II
  
  THE DESERTION OF MAHOMMED SELIM
  
  II
  
  III
  
  IV
  
  V
  
  ON THE REEF OF NORMAN'S WOE
  
  
  Volume 2.
  
  
    
    
  FIELDING HAD AN ORDERLY  
    
  II  
    
  THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE  
    
  A TREATY OF PEACE  
    
  II  
    
  III  
    
  AT THE MERCY OF TIBERIUS  
    
  [ALL THE WORLD'S MAD](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos256242)  
    
  [II](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos262623)  
    
  [III](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos275682)
  
  
  [Volume 3.](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos279788)
  
  
    
    
  [THE MAN AT THE WHEEL](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos279849)  
    
  [A TYRANT AND A LADY](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos302808)  
    
  [II](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos321963)  
    
  [III](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos390824)
  
  
  [Volume 4.](Donovan%20Pasha_split_001.html#filepos421946)
  
  
    
    
  [A YOUNG LION OF DE