Dictator of Rome Series by Francis Mulhern (2-5)
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Overview: I live in Peterborough (UK) with my wife, 3 children, sprindgador dog Daisy and a goldfish called Bob.
I love historical fiction as well as factual history and for years have been reading everything from the Roman Republic to the Zulu wars. I got my love of history from doing Classics at A level and am a sucker for a good story based on real lives.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
2. The Fall of Veii: Part I
Publius Postumius is the hero of the hour, sacking the city of Bolae with its incredible treasures. Sent with a relief force to support his old enemy Marcus falls foul of an assassination attempt before his credibility is tested by the scheming of his old commander and he must choose between friendship and duty.
Back in Rome tensions are rising as Postumius’s schemes grow and his soldiers rage against their former Tribune as the plebeians and patricians come to bloody conflict.
Marcus is given his first command and must fight for glory as his loyalties are tested by the actions of his friends and his enemies.
As Marcus strives to grow his political and military career the greatest challenge to Rome starts to weave its influence over the Latin Delta and the City of Veii becomes Rome’s latest target for conquest.
3. The Fall of Veii: Part II
The seige of Veii has lasted eight long years. years in which the political situation in Rome has grown more hostile and the enemies of Rome have continued to harass their armies. As disaster after disaster befalls Rome they turn to Marcus to destroy the City of Veii and restore glory to their armies.
Fighting wars against neighbouring cities Marcus must find a way to defeat the impregnable walls of Veii and bring glory to his name. In this third book of the Dictator of Rome series Marcus fights political and military enemies and finds that success comes at a cost.
4. Vae Victis
390 BC and Rome sends envoys to the city of Clusium as they are beseiged by 30,000 Gallic invaders. As the Gauls fall to the trickery of the Romans they declare war on the city and smash the Roman army at the battle of the river Allia, Rome’s greatest ever defeat. The gates of Rome stand open as the Senate barricade themselves onto the Capitol Hill and the Gauls take the city.
Marcus is called upon by the Senate to build an army to defeat the Barbarians and return Rome to its own people as the invaders burn and loot the once great city. Marcus must, first, retake the city, and then face his greatest enemy yet as he matches the might of the Roman legions to that of the barbarians in an epic set-piece battle.
Full of action, frenzied battle scenes and with a story line which matches the power of Rome to that of the Barbarian hordes, find out if Marcus can defeat the Gauls and return his family to the city of his birth.
5. The King of Rome
Rebellion, Revolution, war, political intrigue and the beginning of an Empire. Marcus Furius Camillus is back.
Rome is rebuilding after their victory against the Gauls, and there’s money and honour to be gained. Patricians and Plebs clash as they vie to rule the rebuilt city. Senator Javenoli enforces his own law against his internal enemies, stopping at nothing to gain total domination, while Camillus defends Rome against enemies who see an opportunity to strike at the city while she is at her weakest.
As the Legions march to defend their homeland, Capitolinus proclaims himself the people’s champion and stirs a rebellion of the Plebs against the Patricians. Romans fight Romans, gangs rule the streets and assassins hide in every shadow. Yet, in all the carnage of the new Rome, love blossoms in unlikely places.
As the streets run with blood, alliances blossom and political allegiances rise and fall in this latest chapter of Camillus, Dictator of Rome.
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