Blood and steel
Series: Throne of the Caesars -- bk. 2
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Great Britain
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780007499885
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Rome, AD238. An assassin masked as Emperor Maximinus' messenger murders the Prefect and announces to Rome that their Emperor is dead in the north and that Gordian I and II have taken the Throne of the Caesars. But Maximinus is not dead. Secretly he is gathering an army on the banks of the Danube waiting for his moment to strike on the Goths. In Rome, the Gordiani are enthroned and Maximus denounced as an enemy of the state along with any known followers. As bloodshed ensues on the streets, and news spreads back to Maximinus, tension rise in the fight for the imperial purple, which will culminate in a mighty battle of Carthage.