The Coming of the King The Second book in the Rome series

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AD 34: Sebastos Pantera is twelve. Training for the time when he too will be a soldier of Rome; he follows his father to a garden tomb on the outskirts of Jerusalem - where he watches him greet two men and a heavily pregnant woman - and in a moment that changes his life for ever; sees a wounded revolutionary being brought out alive ... Twenty years later on a strip of sand in Gaul; a grubby urchin watches a ship land; and a man with a badly scarred face disembark. The man is Pantera; assassin and spy for the Legions; returning from five years' undercover in Britannia. Pantera is sick of spying. But a deadly combination of old loyalties and a sense of unfinished business combine to lure him homeward to the city of Rome. Charged by his former mentor and spymaster; the Machiavellian Seneca the Younger; to root out the revolutionaries responsible for the city's seething unrest; Pantera soon finds that the main trouble maker is none other than his closest friend Saulos; a recent convert to the new religion of Christianity; and who is planning the biggest single act of terrorism the Roman empire has known. Spying; forbidden secrets; an ancient manuscript and an apocalyptic fire combine in a gripping thriller that will change the way we think about the ancient world.