A SWEEPING EPIC OF ANCIENT ROME FROM THE #1
BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THORN BIRDS
With her
renowned storytelling gifts in full force, Colleen
McCullough delivers a breathtaking novel that is both grand
in scope and vivid in detail -- and proves once again why
she is the top historical novelist of our time.
In the
last days of the Roman Republic, Gaius Julius Caesar is both
adored and despised -- but his rule is unshakable. Forced by
civil war to leave his beguiling mistress Cleopatra, Caesar
turns his eye to the future: who is to inherit the throne of
Roman power? But in the shadows of the empire, the talk is
of murder. Who among his associates has the cunning and
skill to fell the fierce leader -- and brave the dangerous
consequences of that cataclysmic act?