![]() It isn’t easy keeping a series of this many books fresh, creative, interesting….but the author is up to the challenge. The sixth episode – well, if you’re this far along in the series, you already know how brilliant it is. Only amid the fire and blood of battle will he equal the glory that brought him the title Hero of Rome. Yet the laurels that will regain his honour cannot be won in the negotiations in the murky tunnels beneath Jerusalem. Soon, Valerius finds himself at the centre of a web of intrigue spun by Titus’s lover, Queen Berenice of Cilicia, and her sometime ally, the general’s turncoat adviser, Flavius Josephus, who have an ulterior motive for ending the siege quickly. Gone is the cheerful young officer he knew, replaced by a tough, ruthless soldier under pressure from his father to end the insurrection at any cost. ![]() Valerius knows his only hope of long term survival and a restoration of his family’s fortunes lie with his friend Titus, commander of the Army of Judaea and son of the newly crowned Emperor Vespasian.īut when he reaches the ring of legionary camps around the seemingly impregnable city of Jerusalem he finds Titus a changed man. ![]() ![]() Disgraced, dishonoured and banished into exile on pain of execution if he ever returns to Rome, the former military tribune Gaius Valerius Verrens makes his way East through the death and destruction of the savage Judaean rebellion. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |