His cherished Britannia agent has vanished, leaving only a melted wax tablet and a pair of boots.Ĭan Marcus find Benedictus in time? And will he restore his spy network’s reputation by helping the ruthless Theodosius return a rebellious Britannia to the Roman Empire? Packed with action and intrigue, the Embers of Empire series takes the reader into the Valentinian Dynasty of the late 4th century to delight fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steven Saylor, and Robert Harris. He wants spymaster Marcus Gregorianus Numidianus to reconnoiter a chaotic Britain awash in violence. The ambitious Count Flavius Theodosius doesn’t intend to be his sovereign’s third military loser. Click to read more about The Treason of Friends, A Novel of the Late Roman Empire: Embers of Empire VIII by Q. And the 'agentes in rebus' are disgraced by their failure to alert the throne in time.
Emperor Valentinian’s two top generals can’t regain control. The island’s Roman troops-unpaid and demoralized-have deserted their posts. Migrant surges, religious suicide martyrs, imperialist commodity extraction, spiritual faddism, gender battles, child sex abuse, people-trafficking-even a forerunner of Brexit-the men and women of the 4th century faced all of it already, and they’re all in “The Embers of Empire” series, delighting fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steven Saylor, and Robert Harris.Barbarian tribes of Saxons, Picts, and Franks have ransacked Britain in one fell swoop.
Marcus will survive to face Gallo-Roman army rebels, corrupt imperial eunuchs ruling the East, and a pair of Christian emperors struggling to maintain order in the face of Goths, Alemanni, Saxons, Berbers, Persians, and Franks-all amidst embers of a world blindly smoldering toward its extinction. All from 12.07 New Books from 12.07 Used Books from 23.49 Rare Books from 46. The Roman-bred spy chief can only save his beloved city from its own follies by exposing the cutthroat political showdown buried deep. Even if Marcus’ mission to find the powerful mastermind behind the mutilating ambushes is a success, will his army master honor an obligation to free the stubborn young hero? But Maximinus wave of lawless terror soon threatens to trap everyone Marcus loves. In this first adventure, “The Veiled Assassin” pits young Marcus Gregorianus Numidianus, half-African slave-turned-spy, against religious suicide martyrs destroying the stability of Roman African colonial exports vital to a hungry empire. The Dominate period ruled by Emperors Constans, Constantius II, Julian the Apostate, and the Valentinian brothers was a world of usurping barbarian generals, competing Christian factions, intrigant eunuchs, overstretched borders, and the rise of the rival ‘New Roma’ or Constantinople in the East. Hunter’s ground-breaking series, ‘The Embers of Empire,’ introducing Roman fiction fans to a little-used setting when the Republic and Imperium periods had become fading memories.
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