TG
26th January 2008, 12:35 PM
This is the Roman Empire. Now.
"A slave waits to be crucified; a desperate young girl with strange abilities stalks through the streets of London; a gang of fugitives hides out in the Pyrenees, while on giants screens in every city, the world watches the funeral of the Imperial family's most glamorous couple.
A single state hold absolute sway from the Eastern border of India across the Atlantic: magnetic railways span the glove and tunnels run beneath the Adriatic sea and the Straight of Gades. Slaves are constructing a giant bridge over the Persian Gulf. But as tensions with a rival Empire in the East escalate, the first rumblings of a world conflict are beginning to be felt.
Meanwhile, only an overworked official doubts that the deaths of the Emperor's war-hero brother and his beautiful, charismatic wife were accidental. The sixteen-year-old heir to the throne is about to learn a secret that threatens the security of the greatest power on earth - and his own life."
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This is book 1 in a trilogy. Very well written, definitely not boring.
"A slave waits to be crucified; a desperate young girl with strange abilities stalks through the streets of London; a gang of fugitives hides out in the Pyrenees, while on giants screens in every city, the world watches the funeral of the Imperial family's most glamorous couple.
A single state hold absolute sway from the Eastern border of India across the Atlantic: magnetic railways span the glove and tunnels run beneath the Adriatic sea and the Straight of Gades. Slaves are constructing a giant bridge over the Persian Gulf. But as tensions with a rival Empire in the East escalate, the first rumblings of a world conflict are beginning to be felt.
Meanwhile, only an overworked official doubts that the deaths of the Emperor's war-hero brother and his beautiful, charismatic wife were accidental. The sixteen-year-old heir to the throne is about to learn a secret that threatens the security of the greatest power on earth - and his own life."
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This is book 1 in a trilogy. Very well written, definitely not boring.