Written by: Richard Blake
Submitted By: Anne McFadgen
First in a series of historical thrillers set in the early seventh century, featuring a clever, cynical young Saxon nobleman transplanted to Rome, a city riven by power struggles between the fading Roman Empire and the Church of Rome.
Full of twists and turns, many devious characters and plenty of action, intrigue, sex and violence, this is a brilliant evocation of a time and place not often found in historical fiction.
