num_pages: 121
description: Agents of Rome - Book 1  "A gripping and exciting read, well-researched and convincing." Peter Tonkin, author of The Ides.  Philippi  42BC  Caesar is dead and his successors crave vengeance.  The massed legions of Octavian and Mark Antony face off against Cassius and Brutus.  Primus pilus Titus Villius Macer is ordered to probe new defences thrown up by the assassins' auxiliaries.  His success wins him an audience with the young general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who sends him on a mission to his native Sicilia, which is ruled by the pirate Sextus Pompey.  Macer's homecoming is different to what he expects, however. His wife has changed - and so has the governance of the island.  The soldier becomes a spy and is drawn into a plot, which will test his mettle and loyalty, involving piracy and assassination.  A race against time and sea-battle await the veteran.  Nest of Vipers is the first book in the Agents of Rome series of novellas. 
language: English
title: Nest of Vipers
publisher: Sharpe Books