Name: False God of Rome
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9780857897435

Robert Fabbri

Vespasian is serving as a military officer on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, suppressing local troubles and defending the Roman way. But political events in Rome - Tiberius's increasingly insane debauchery, the escalating grain crisis - draw him back to the city. When Caligula becomes Emperor, Vespasian believes that things will improve. Instead, he watches the young emperor deteriorate from Rome's shining star to a blood-crazed, incestuous, all-powerful madman. Lavish building projects, endless games, public displays of his relationship with his sister, Drusilla, and.

False God of Rome

Vespasian's mission will lead to violence, mayhem, and theft—and in the end, to a betrayal so great it will echo through the ages Vespasian is serving as a military officer on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, suppressing local troubles and defending the Roman way. But political events in Rome—Tiberius's increasingly insane debauchery, the escalating grain crisis—draw him back to the city. When Caligula becomes Emperor, Vespasian believes that things will improve. Instead, he watches the young emperor deteriorate from Rome's shining star to a blood-crazed, incestuous, all-powerful madman. Lavish building projects, endless games, public displays of his relationship with his sister, Drusilla, and a terrified senate are as nothing to Caligula's most ambitious plan: to bridge the bay of Neapolis and ride over it wearing Alexander's breastplate. And it falls to Vespasian to travel to Alexandria and steal it from Alexander's mausoleum.

Tom Turner

The third book in Fabbri's Vespasian enters the reign of Caligula, and if you know anything about this particular Roman Empire, you will know the events of his reign were anything but boring. I realised from the end of the second book that this series is not going to be a rose tinted look at history, and I was definitely not mistaken there. I must admit as someone of faith, I wasn't that hair with the way he is painting the emerging sect, as it was then, especially the depiction of a particular figure of my faith. But given he doesn't particularly paint anyone in a favourable light, I can't really complain too much. Plus he admits to a lot of that beingafe up anyway.

False God of Rome

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