Christine Feddersen-Manfredi Livres

March, 44 BC. Rome, in all her glory, has expanded her territories beyond the wildest dreams of her citizens, led by Caius Julius Caesar -- Pontifex Maximus, dictator perpetuo, invincible military leader and only fifty-six years old. He is a man in command of his destiny, who wields enormous power throughout the vast empire. However his god-given mission - to end the blood-splattered fratricidal wars, reconcile implacably hostile factions and preserve Roman civilization and world order - is teetering dangerously close to collapse... His power is draining away. None of his supporters can stop the inexorably evolving plot against him and prophecy will explode into truth on the Ides of March and the world will change forever. This is political thriller laced through with all the intrigue and action surrounding one of the most crucial turning points in the history of western civilization.

L'an 476 marque officiellement la fin de l'Empire romain mais il y a longtemps déjà que Vandales, Huns et Wisigoths ravagent et occupent la Gaule et l'Italie. Alaric a pris Rome et Constantin a choisi Byzance pour capitale. En détrônant l'enfant Romulus Augustule, le chef goth Odoacre met à mort l'Empire disloqué. Le Barbare épargne néanmoins la vie du dernier des Césars adolescents. C'est l'exil, et la fuite vers les confins septentrionaux, sous la protection d'Aurélius, commandant d'une légion décimée. Une extraordinaire découverte, une épée à l'inscription mystérieuse, oriente alors le voyage : cette arme légendaire semble leur indiquer les brumes du pays breton... Une prodigieuse rencontre entre deux civilisations menacées, entre le légionnaire romain et le chevalier celte, entre les survivants du Capitole et la cour du roi Arthur. Notre civilisation occidentale a peut-être commencé à cet instant-là.

A sensational new action-packed adventure from the bestselling author of the 'Alexander' trilogy and The Last Legion

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour, the Emperor dies, but his guards make a daring escape lead by the heroic and enigmatic chief, Marcus Metellus Aquila. They meet a mysterious, exiled Chinese Prince, Dan Qing, and agree to safeguard his journey home to reconquest his throne from his mortal enemy, a eunuch named Wei. Thus, begins the adventures of the Romans and the Prince as they journey to China. There, they will discover that they aren't the first of their kind to arrive in they were preceded centuries before by the survivors of the 'lost legion'.