The Death of Kings
β Scribed by Iggulden, Conn
- Book ID
- 107342532
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 419 KB
- Series
- Emperor 2
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys
"Brilliant...stunning," raved the Los Angeles Times about Conn Iggulden's first novel, Emperor: The Gates of Rome. "Iggulden is a grand storyteller," declared USA Today. Now Iggulden returns to the landscape of ancient Rome and the life of Julius Caesar in a new novel filled with all the sumptuous storytelling that distinguished his first book. Sweeping from the windswept, pirate-ruled seas to the stifling heat of the Roman senate, Iggulden takes us further down the path to glory as Julius Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, leader.
In a sweltering, sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them. Ragged, dirty, and half starved, the men will follow their leader into the mad, glorious fight for honor and revenge that only he wants to fight. Their leader is named Julius...
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