Sword of Rome (4) (Gaius Valerius Verrens)
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Sword of Rome (4) (Gaius Valerius Verrens)

Paperback – November 1, 2013

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Price
$5.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Bantam Press
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0593070550
Dimensions
6 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
Weight
1.19 pounds

Description

• "One of the best historical novelists writing today." -- Daily Express Douglas Jackson is the author of Caligula and Claudius as well as two previous titles featuring Gaius Valerius Verrens, Hero of Rome and Defender of Rome .

Features & Highlights

  • Nero's turbulent reign draws to a close and Gaius Valerius Varens returns in his fourth brutal and bloody adventure. He's been Rome's hero, its defender and its avenger, and now he is the Empire's sword
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  • AD 68. The Emperor Nero’s erratic and bloody reign is in its death throes when Gaius Valerius Verrens is dispatched to Rome on a mission that will bring it to a close. With Nero dead, the city holds its breath and awaits the arrival his successor, Servius Sulpicius Galba, governor of Hispania. The Empire prays for peace, but it prays in vain. Galba promises stability and prosperity, but his rule begins with a massacre and ends only months later in chaos and carnage. This will become known as the Year of the Four Emperors, a time of civil war which will tear Rome apart and test Valerius’s skills and loyalties to their very limit. Fortunate to survive Galba’s fall, Valerius is sent on a mission by Rome’s new Emperor, Otho, to his old friend Vitellius, commander of the armies of the north. Vitellius’s legions are on the march, and only Valerius can persuade him to halt them before the inevitable confrontation. In an epic adventure that will take him the length and breadth of a divided land, the one-armed Roman fights to stay alive and stave off a bloodbath as he is stalked by the most implacable enemy he has ever faced.

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Historical Novel about the Roman Civil War

This book is a continuation of the Hero of Rome series although not as good, in my opinion, as the initial book or even some of the follow up books.

This book takes our hero to the time of the Year of the Four Emperors: Galba, Otho, Vitellius and Nero. Nero was the emperor at the start of this and was considered to mad and needed to be deposed and killed. The Hero of Rome does the necessary job.

And, in fact, the Hero of Rome is in the middle of the action, being sent by Otho with a note to Vitellius to ask him to stop his rebellion. Vitellius of course declines. Most of the book is about the travels from Rome to what is now known as Cologne and back and near calls on the way there and back.

The book also covers the main battle of Roman against Roman that occurred when Vitellius' forces met Otho's, with the Hero of Rome in the middle of the action.

I recommend this book for any reader who is interested in Roman history as this book brings the history alive.
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Five Stars

Good read

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