It is 612 AD and Aelric - senator of the Roman Empire, fresh from a bloodbath in Egypt, is forced to divert the Imperial galley to Athens. He finds a demoralized and corrupt provincial city threatened by an army rumoured to contain twenty million starving barbarians. Not to mention an explosive religious dispute, an unexplained corpse, and hints of something worse than murder...
He will have to call upon all his formidable intellect and lethal ingenuity to survive his enemies inside and outside the city walls...
Author Biography
Richard Blake is a historian, broadcaster and university lecturer. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.
