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Book 2004

Emperor: The Death of Kings

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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Published
2004
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Historical fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Rome, fiction

The young Julius Caesar is serving on board a war galley, gaining a fearsome reputation. Then his ship is captured, and he is ransomed and then abandoned on the north African coast. After gathering a force of men powerful enough not only to gain vengeance on his captors but also to suppress an uprising in Greece, he returns to Rome a hero. But then Julius finds he must fight again. For a new crisis is threatening the city. In the unexpected form of a rebellious gladiator named Sparticus ...