' Commodus by Simon Turney is my sort of historical fiction - people who actually lived - with their lives told in an intriguing and interesting way' - Amazon review WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE DAMNED EMPEROR SERIES: She was Marcia.įrom the author of the critically acclaimed Caligula ('an engrossing new spin on a well-known tale' - The Times) comes the new novel in The Damned Emperors series: Commodus. To Rome, he is their emperor, their Hercules, their Commodus.īut Commodus is breaking up himself, and when the darkness grips, only one woman can hold him together. One man tries to hold the fracturing empire together.

The Empire stands on the brink of true disaster, an age of gold giving way to one of iron and rust, a time of reason and strength sliding into hunger and pain. Two decades of war have taken their toll, and there are whispers of a sickness in the East. The Empire's borders are growing, and there are two sons in the imperial succession for the first time in Rome's history.īut all is not as it appears. Rome is enjoying a period of stability and prosperity. A fascinating, detailed and dramatic story of one of Rome's most notorious emperors' SUNDAY EXPRESSĬommodus is a brilliant, thrilling novel about one of Rome's most intriguing - and notorious - emperors, for fans of Simon Scarrow, Conn Iggulden, Christian Cameron, Ben Kane and Harry Sidebottom.

A fascinating, detailed and dramatic story of one of Rome's most notorious emperors' SUNDAY EXPRESS Commodus is a brilliant, thrilling novel about one of Rome's most intriguing - and notorious - emperors, for fans of Simon Scarrow, Conn Iggulden, Christian Cameron, Ben Kane and Harry Sidebottom.

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