Book description
In the shadow of Sicily's Mount Etna, a brutal rebellion is about to erupt . . .
The scorching new historical thriller from Sunday Times bestseller and Ancient Rome expert, Harry Sidebottom.
'What Bernard Cornwell is to the Napoleonic Wars, Harry Sidebottom is to Roman legions: unassailable' - THE TIMES…
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The Roman Empire in third-century CE had always been a rather mysterious place for me. I knew that there was a crisis as the frontiers gave way and the Emperor Valerian was humiliatingly captured by the Persians but the sources for the period were so vague and fragmentary that it was difficult to find out what happened and when. This novel takes one line from the late and unreliable Historia Augusta that mentions a slave revolt on Sicily in 265. The main character and his son arrive on the island just as the insurgency breaks out and before long are…
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