3 Novels by David Adkins
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Overview: I am a historian and former employee of English Heritage. I have written three historical novels and I am presently writing a fourth. I live in Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire.
I am a Charlton Athletic fan and a cricket and tennis fan. I enjoy travel and family history.
Genre: Fiction Historical
The End of a Dynasty: It’s 90 AD and Rome rules the world.
Unfortunately, the cruel and sexually deviant Emperor Domitian is in charge, and life is terrifying for those around him.
Domitia Longina is Domitian’s wife. Insecure and frightened due to the fact her husband seems to prefer the bed of others, including his niece, Julia.
Fearful she may be seen off, Longina asks her nephew Lucius to move into the palace and be her spy.
His once noble family has been ostracized since his father plotted to overthrow Nero thirty years earlier, and Lucius has gone from being the son of a senator to studying law. He is not happy when his aunt makes him an offer he can’t refuse.
Lucius, now known as Parthenian, is barely settled into his quarters when he witnesses the murder of a senator. The guards want him dead, but the Empress wants him alive. Being quick witted and loyal, soon Parthenian is spying for everyone.
He befriends a woman named Marcella, not knowing that she is a sorceress. When the emperor decides to stage some gladiatrix games, he chooses Aria to fight. Aria is best friends with Corelia, the emperor’s favourite concubine. Unfortunately, Parhenian too falls in love with the beautiful Corelia, a certain death sentence. But while some want Parthenian dead, someone is protecting him.
Meanwhile, outside the gates of the Imperial Palace lies the Subura, a neighbourhood of Rome even the guards and soldiers avoid. It is the perfect place to practice Christianity, outlawed by the emperor and punishable by death. Still, a few manage to infiltrate the royal staff, leaving Parthenian with something else to worry about.
And just when he thought things couldn’t get worse, Domitian decides to go to battle, and takes Parthenian with him.
Filled with intrigue, dalliances and political corruption, the End of a Dynasty is a page turning historical epic set against the grandeur of Imperial Rome. It is the third in the series following on from The Eagle’s Nest and The Wolf’s Lair and Season of the Gladiatrix.
Season of the Gladiatrix: AD 87.
Hylas, a member of the Praetorian Guard, is on duty at the palace of the cruel and paranoid Emperor Domitian.
Although loyal to his emperor, Hylas has reason to despise him, in the form of the beautiful gladiatrix, Corelia.
Hylas fell in love with Corelia the first time he saw her, but had to endure the knowledge that her regular visits to the palace were in order to spend her time in the bed of Domitian, submitting to his every whim.
Hylas is given a mission upon which the result of an important trial will hang – a trial of senators, charged with the most heinous of crimes: conspiracy to murder and overthrow the emperor.
He has to find the missing witness whose evidence would convict the conspirators.
For Hylas, however, the difficult task is about to be made more complicated by a further, and perhaps more dangerous operation, imposed upon him by Corelia.
Hylas leaves Rome on his now two-fold assignment, assisted by another young gladiatrix, Aria.
They journey through the Empire towards Asia, but Hylas is not the only one searching for the witness, and those who pursue him do not necessarily have the same goal as he does…
The Forgotten Pharaoh: It is more than 1300 years before the birth of Christ and the mighty Egyptian Empire is at the peak of its power.
The ancient civilisation is enjoying unprecedented prosperity during the 18th Dynasty under some of Egypt’s most famous Pharaohs – Ahmose I, Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun.
But every empire has its rivals – here the Hittites, the Mittani, Nubians and Assyrians – and every royal family its enemies.
Smenkhkare is the youngest son of Amenhotep III and brother to Akhenamun – later to become the ruler Akhenaten – and Thutmose, plus three older sisters.
The scheming Akhenamun dismisses Smenkhkare as a mere stripling, but the wise warrior Thutmose takes the boy under his wing and sets out to make a man of him.
This is crucial for Smenkhkare whose father has decided that the only role for the boy will be through a marriage of convenience to the beautiful Mittani princess Taduheppa.
The bride is ravishing – but older and more worldly – and refuses to consummate the coupling.
Full of sympathy for his little brother, Thutmose advises patience and also invites Smenkhkare to accompany him on a raid to hunt down bandits who have attacked a caravan in the desert.
It is a fateful moment. Thutmose is killed by an arrow through the neck, igniting a calamitous chain of events as Smenkhkare discovers the arrow did not come from a bandit’s bow.
Who, then, did fire the fatal missile? Who would benefit most from the death of the man next in line for the pharoah’s throne? Could the murderer be within his own family? Or was someone else close to the family plotting to seize power?
Can Smenkhkare trust his favourite sister Nebetah with his thoughts? Can trusted general Coreb help him in his bid to avenge the death of Thutmose? Who would try to eliminate Smenkhkare by placing a deadly cobra in a basket under his bed? And what are the ghastly contents in two other baskets thrust under Smenkhkare’s nose?
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