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Synopsis
The Roman Empire stretches across the Atlantic and far into Asia, yet it is an unstable time. Strange fires burn out of control, the Emperor falls suddenly ill, and a massacre in the shaow of the Great Wall of Terranova brings the world to teh brink of a global war. At this critical moment, three years after a consiracy against his life forced him into hiding, the young heir to the throne, Marcus Noius, must take command of the greatest power on Earth. But his ambitious cousin Drusus – spurred on by a riddling Sybilline prophecy – threatens this last chance to avoid a world conflict, and Una, a former slave whose love for Marcus seems out of place at the Roman court, is drawn into the political intrigue and a dangerous enmity.

Roz Kaveney, Time Out
“…some very intelligent thinking… enjoyable smart yarn with some real sense of human pain”

Product Details

• First Edition First Printing
• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Orion (22 Aug 2007)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 0752860798
• ISBN-13: 978-0752860794
• Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm

Book Description
Publication Date: 14 Mar 2013
London 1599, a city on the brink of revolution…
He is Queen Elizabeth’s last, perhaps her greatest, love – Robert Deveraux, Earl of Essex. Champion jouster, dashing general…and the man that John Lawley, England’s finest swordsman, most wishes to avoid. For John knows the other earl – the reckless melancholic – and has had to risk his life for him in battle one time too many.
All John wants is to be left alone to win back the heart of the woman he loves, be the kind of father that his son can look up to, and arrange the fight scenes for the magnificent new theatre, the Globe. To realise these dreams, John must dodge both Essex and his ruthless adversary for the queen’s affections, Robert Cecil, and remain free to help his oldest friend Will Shakespeare finish the play that threatens to destroy him: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET.
But John is doomed by his three devils: whisky, women and Mad Robbie Deveraux. Despite every effort to evade the clutches of Elizabeth and her cohorts, John is soon enmeshed in the intrigues of court and dragged into the seemingly hopeless war in Ireland, forced to play his part in a deadly game of power and politics, conspiracy and rebellion.
From the scaffold of the Globe to the one in the Tower. From ambush in Ireland to even greater menace in Whitehall, John Lawley must strive to be – or not to be – the man who might just save England.
Review
This is a spectacularly good historical novel. Lewd, debauched and pungent on the one hand, but genuinely romantic, honourable and deeply felt on the other… there’s spying, rebellion, and adventure, and it’s a real page-turner too. (Richard Lee GOOD READS)
I worried that i didn’t have the right words or the eloquence to do justice to the book. Yes the book is simply that good… This story has it all; a love story, a family story, History, mystery and intrigue, passion, sex, plots, fighting, infighting, backstabbing…the list could go on and on. It is the complete package.
A book this good comes along only rarely and deserves to hit the bestseller list.
(Robin Carter)

“A truly moving masterpiece.” (DAILY EXPRESS)

“If you are into historical romps, then you will thrill to the adventures of master swordsman John Lawley… This is as swashbuckling as it comes.” (NORTHERN ECHO)

Excellent sense of time and era, great and realistic characters who stay in the mind, full of action: what more could any historical fiction fan want?…Highly recommended. (HISTORICAL NOVELIST ASSOCIATION)
About the Author
C.C. Humphreys was born in Toronto and grew up in Los Angeles and London. A third generation actor and writer on both sides of his family, he is married and lives on Salt Spring Island, Canada.

Product details

• First Edittion First Printing
• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Orion (14 Mar 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1409114899
• ISBN-13: 978-1409114895
• Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4 cm