The Last Lion Standing - Wes Brustad

5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Black & White on White paper506 pages ISBN-13: 978-1547105168  ISBN-10: 154710516X BISAC: Fiction / Christian / Historical   Only two years after Nebuchadnezzar’s death, the infighting began. A series of power plays for the throne was subsequently set in motion during the last two decades leading to the empire’s ultimate collapse. The last man on the throne was Belshazzer, never a king in his own right but rather a co-regent appointed by his father. As the princes of Babylon together with their wives and mistresses partied in a drunken orgy into the night, Persian soldiers entered the supposedly impregnable city through the Euphrates River under the city’s walls, Within hours and with little bloodshed, Cyrus the Great had conquered the Babylonian empire.  This story of the last days and years of the Babylonian empire is one of sexual intrigue, political deception, corruption, and, above all, consummate greed and a thirst for riches. It is a story