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Loading... Rome's Executioner (Vespasian Series Book 2) (edition 2012)by Robert Fabbri (Author)
Work InformationRome's Executioner by Robert Fabbri
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I really enjoyed the first in the series but thought this book a poor sequel. Well written but lacking in excitement for me. I'll still probably read more though and it was an okay read, just not a patch on book 1. ( ) The second instalment of Fabbri's interpretation of the life of the emperor Vespasian. This novel deals largely with Sejanus and his fall. Our still young hero has returned from four years of military service on the frontier of the Empire, and is immediately catapulted into the centre of imperial politicking. The lady Antonia, daughter of Mark Antony, leads the anti-Sejanus faction. She uses Vespasian, his brother, and his family to combat Sejanus's ambitions. With these willing tools she uncovers his plot to become emperor by promoting insurrection on the borders, gathering political power to himself, and one by one leading to their deaths his rivals to the throne. This information is smuggled to the debauched and semi-addled Tiberius by a party that includes, amongst others, Vespasian, and his 'friend' the young Gaius Caligula. As Vespasian learns more about Caligula, the more he dreads his assumption of power. The culmination of the novel is the downfall of Sejanus. The praetorian prefect is confronted in the Senate with his treason, and is then condemned to death, along with this son and children. At the end of the novel Vespasian is disenchanted with life in the capital, and what it takes to serve Rome. He is still with his slave ladylove, and the future still awaits. no reviews | add a review
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Thracia, 30 AD: Even after four years military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging it. Vespasian's mission is the key move in a deadly struggle for the right to rule the Roman Empire. The man he has been ordered to seize could be the witness that will destroy Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard and ruler of the Empire in all but name. Before he completes his mission, Vespasian will face ambush in snowbound mountains, pirates on the high seas, and Sejanus's spies all around him. But by far the greatest danger lies at the rotten heart of the Empire, at the nightmarish court of Tiberius, Emperor of Rome and debauched, paranoid madman. No library descriptions found. |
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