Romanitas - Sophia McDougall

[TG]

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.

[Flatty]

Sounds right up my alley.

My father used to have some awesome books that depicted greece (I know it's different) in the days of Sparta & thereabout.

Brilliant stuff - I will remember to ask my father to find them, although I am sure @ 71 his memory is a bit sieved.

[rainy]

I'll keep a lookout for this one.

[TG]

I also read book 2 called Rome Burning. RN - If you want to borrow them, just yell.