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The Death of Kings: A Novel of Julius Caesar (Emperor, Bk 2)
The Death of Kings A Novel of Julius Caesar - Emperor, Bk 2 Author:Conn Iggulden The acclaimed author of Emperor: The Gates of Rome returns to the extraordinary life of Julius Caesar in a new novel that takes us further down the path to glory... as Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader. — In a sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their ey... more »es toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ransom. Now, as Caesar exacts his revenge and builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Marcus Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden woman. Now they will be united again by a shock wave from the north, where a gladiator named Spartacus is building an army of seventy thousand slaves -- to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.« less