By Conn Iggulden
From the writer of the bestselling The risky e-book for Boys
With his acclaimed Emperor novels, writer Conn Iggulden brings a blinding global to life–the wealthy, advanced international of historic Rome as obvious throughout the eyes of 1 amazing guy: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the tale of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of england. by contrast brilliant backdrop, Caesar, his first victories below his belt and a sequence of key alliances in position, makes his circulate towards energy and glory–and instructions his well-known legions on one in all history’s bloodiest and such a lot bold army campaigns.
it truly is the center of the 1st century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to go into the treacherous political battleground that has turn into Rome. Having proved his valor within the slaves’ rebellion, Caesar is bolstered by means of the affection and imaginative and prescient of an attractive older girl, and via the sword of his unswerving pal, Marcus Brutus. And while he's appointed to a brand new place of strength, Caesar manages to do what not one of the different nice figures of his time may well: catch the hearts of the Roman humans themselves. Crushing a uprising, bringing order to the teeming urban, Caesar then makes the movement that might switch historical past. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with a military made in his personal photograph, he starts off a bold cost via Gaul, throughout the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain.
the following, in a sequence of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar can be cast. And whereas Caesar and Brutus pit their lives–and these in their men–against the armies of the desert, their political adversaries in Rome develop instantly extra frightened and extra bold. So whilst the struggling with on the dominion’s part is over, the best threat to Julius Caesar will watch for him at the Tiber–with a guy who wishes Rome himself.
From the conflict of armies to the warmth of a woman’s seduction, from the thunder of conflict to the orgies of enjoyment and plunder that stick with in a warrior’s wake, Emperor: the sector of Swords captures in riveting aspect a global being formed via an excellent civilization. And during this impressive novel, the destiny of Rome is being pushed through the objectives of a unmarried guy. a guy with an unequalled genius for power.
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